The humble burndown is very easy to create, interpret, use and abuse. They can be very simple, allowing for much discussion and interpretation (or just interpretation… tisk tisk): or they can provide a pretty direct message: Less is More… During a course discussion with fellow PSD trainers a few years ago I made the [...]
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This is part two of a three part series Time box: A Holistic View on Sprints and Iterations Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~ Parkinson’s Law, Cyril Northcote Parkinson On Risk Reduction Teams talk some good game when they sell Agile to their organizational leaders: real software in [...]
Expand Your Normal
Jan 27
I went for beers with a couple of coworkers today and a question came up that I get a lot. What’s the point of a kata? That’s an answer for you to come up with for yourself, but I’ll let you in on my secret obsession: I want to expand my normal. TL;DR I have [...]
Without freedom, one’s creativity cannot bloom. ~ Dalai Lama On Creativity In his 2005 A Survey of Organizational Creativity, Wayne Morris of New Zealand found that 2 of the top 3 Factors that facilitate or enhance organizational creativity are Time and Space/resources to pursue ideas. Google stands as a preeminent topic brought up by software [...]
Over the last few years we’ve seen a growing discontent around the idea of Iterations or Sprints. It excites me that the software community is actively engaged in questioning the long held canon of Agile practices. Through these explorations we as an industry will find a greater depth of understanding. Over time this can only [...]