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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