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...
I have sometimes found clients have a hard time getting the concept of ideal time - also the point that comparing estimating units between teams is like...
Mike, Thanks for your replies. I probably shouldn't have mentioned ideal days at all in my original question! I completely agree about only using them as a...
[Sorry about the double post on my last message. Mike and I thought the moderation mechanism had eaten it, but it seems it was just running behind on...
Getting companies to not compare velocities is harder, I've found, than getting them to understand ideal time. There's an innate desire to want to compare, I...
Yes, when it's a class of stories it's relatively straightforward to re-estimate just that class of stories. That's the classic example of when the relative...
Two new chapters are finally available. The first is either all or part of the preface or becomes Chapter 1. It's "Why Estimate and Plan" and the second...
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