Agile
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Effects of Separating “New” Work vs “Maintenance” Work
Back when I was a manager, my senior management wanted to separate the “new” work from the “maintenance” work. I…
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Summary for a Project’s Boundaries: Drivers, Constraints, & Floats
In my experience, too many projects are under too much pressure. The sponsors want all of the features, completed in…
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Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Owner?
I spoke with a project manager recently. She told me her story. I used to facilitate project teams as a…
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Better product by documenting trust boundary
Have you ever faced issue when you trusted system, team or product and that resulted in failure of feature or…
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In defence of hierarchy
Hierarchy, it is one of those topics which provokes a reaction. There are many in the agile community who believe…
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Plan less, do more
“Planning has rapidly diminishing returns: plan less, do more, learn more, redesign governance to kill early and often.” Happy new…
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Minimal measures for minimal stability in a complex world (that will help you optimize your Scrum)
Scrum, in its more general definition, is a simple framework to help us address complex challenges. Product development is the…
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Release Planning Advice
Release planning is an important task for product people working with agile teams: It ensures that the product is moving…
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Create Feedback Loops (Agile Approaches) for Hardware Products
In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products, I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive.…
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