Image taken from the 2008 film “Hancock” (Colombia Pictures) starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron Extreme Programming Pairing One of the more controversial techniques that XP employs is Paired Programming. Paired programming is when two developers work on a single task,...
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BMX stunt riders, just like any other eXtreme Sport, takes a lot of practice to get right. When learning a trick, a lot of practice is required. Most of that time, of course, is spent failing, sometimes in spectacular ways. Before a...
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In “Teamwork is an Individual Skill” Christopher Avery suggests that collective leverage and power does not come from distributing and delegating accountabilities, but from collectively demonstrating responsibility for the entire result, with each member doing their best to make their...
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I was reminded today that us humans tend to want to immediately interpret everything. Is a high capacity utilization desirable or not, what is the correct number? As Agilists we need measurements in order to control and improve all our...
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There is a concept in Agile of ‘evergreen’ work – work that the team owns and which should be picked up after committed stories have been completed. A characteristic of this work is that it tends not to be time-sensitive,...
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How can you even think about ‘constant improvement’ if you aren’t measuring your basic activity. Its taken rather more time than I’d like to admit to realize that Sprint burn up and burn down charts are not just an overly...
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“After I’ve finished this story, I’ll pick up story #1354”. Trouble is that #1354 is a 5-point story that will take two people two days to complete…and there are only two days left on the iteration. This is known in...
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I know…this is heresy you are thinking – Stories ARE Value. How does this even make sense? I suggest that teams try to think about committing to delivering a full set of value every iteration. This means focusing in one...
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While I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the project Governance, and how Agile fits into the organization’s governance structure, I’ve become to believe more and more that Agile isn’t a software development framework at all really. Its actually a...
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One of the problems that teams can easily fall into is that after a while the team stops feeling the pain of missing commitments. The commitments becomes aspirational goals that somehow don’t seem to get reached … “well we tried,...
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