For people in the Bay Area or keen travellers the following course may be of interest as Mary speaks a lot about defining how to get maximum business value and...
Starting next week, my company, Rally Software, is hosting a series of free webinars around Agile Software Development to include speakers such as Mike Cohn,...
Mike, Is there any value in describing the parking lot diagram (http://www.nebulon.com/articles/fdd/ptsparkinglot.html) from FDD. Jim Highsmith mentioned it at...
I've been thinking recently about what to call "Agile Planning". I'm split between just calling it that, and calling it something different to avoid the...
I think I'm going to stick with "Agile Estimating and Planning" for now. I haven't heard anything. that compels me toward a different title to suggest to the...
Hi Mike, Upon reading the "Software is Developed in Iterations" section in ch. 2 I came across you discussing a topic I have sometimes wondered about and had...
Here's my 2 pennies worth: Like a heart beats with a regularity that keeps the body 'going', a fixed iteration duration provides a constant which helps...
My opinion is that teams establish a very valuable rhythm when they stick with a consistent iteration length. I started doing my own version of Scrum in 1995...
Great summary, Simon. I completely agree. Your point about the team needing to be conscious of something they shouldn't have to be is right on target. Thanks, ...
I've noticed that fixed iteration sizes improves the accuracy of the work
effort commitment during the planning meeting. The team begins to derive a
solid...
Yes, good point. --Mike Cohn Author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development <http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com> www.mountaingoatsoftware.com ...
... Ive experienced this as well. In one team that I led, they struggled for 18 months on miserably frustrating, predictive, non-agile, failed release after...
Quite a success story, Brad. Congratulations on such a successful turnaround of that department. --Mike Cohn Author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software...
... Thx, I wish I could say it was a departmental success. We were just one team in that dept. The axe still came and slashed/cut us pretty bad. All the other...
Hi Brad. I know this might be a bit off topic, but with all that success with an agile approach, how on earth did management come to the conclusion that this...
... Due to its previous 1.5yr track record of abysmal project failure being horridly late, and not even meeting the customers changing needs when we finally...
Some companies never learn. --Mike Cohn Author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development www.mountaingoatsoftware.com www.userstories.com ... ...
... Sometimes. To be fair, many don't after only 1 or 2 experiences. Many have their own, most appropriate channels for introducing such changes. My team was...
This coming week on December 3rd at 11am MT, my company, Rally Software, is offering the final presentation in our series of free webinars around Agile...
Mike, I have a question about estimates - this may well be something that will be covered in Chapter 8 - "Re-estimating", but here it is anyway. Suppose the...
... [I know you asked Mike, but I thought I'd throw in my $0.02.] We want our story backlog and velocity to reflect reality. I usually encourage the team to...
Mike, On reading XP Explained 2nd ed, I note that Kent has moved away from the practice of estimating in ideal days as estimates in real time are easier for...
... Paul, Thanks for that. Don't worry, I'm open to anyone's view on the situation! It seemed to me that there were two opposing forces in this problem: On...
... Oh gosh, I don't think we should ever ignore experience! =-O An important thing is that all the stories currently in the backlog need to maintain a...
Hi Chris-- Paul's given an excellent answer to this but I'll add in my 1 cent or so of additional comments. (Great answer, Paul--thanks for contributing it.) ...
Chris-- An additional comment after reading your reply to Paul: This issue of feeling pressure or that stories are inconsistently estimated is why I advocate...
Hi Rachel-- Yes, good point and I will have to mention that somewhere. I don't really agree with him on that point. There are many, many problems with...
... Oh gosh, I don't think we should ever ignore experience! =-O An important thing is that all the stories currently in the backlog need to maintain a...
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