No plan survives contact with reality, or so the saying goes. So why should we make plans at all? A story.
Contact with Reality
Category: Agile
Velocity – Gross vs. Net
Velocity is where theory and practice clash very hard. Your numbers may look great but your predictability is worthless - or vice versa.
The Five Phases
Project management teaches five phases to project delivery, which are widely accepted. In the software world these don't translate well, however. If you build a product to offer a service,…
Cheating yourself
One of my teams was so obsessed with velocity; they constantly stressed about doing 'more.' Yet, at the same time, they were not even able to get their velocity to…
Involvement Poker
Maybe you've heard of delegation poker - a collaborative way to determine, what level of delegation a team and team lead are comfortable with. Let me tell you a story…
Plans are useless. Planning is essential.
Let me tell you a story about one of my teams that fell apart. And all it would have required was some amount of planning and focus to give people…
Nobody cares about your status
Daily stand-ups. Most of you have seen and participated in the usual 3-question stand-ups. Super simple, classic, outdated, missing the point.