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Under my recent post about best engineering practices I was pointed that it is just another “do whatever works for you” or “I don’t know experiment” kind of advice. Well, it was that kind of advice indeed. Have I ever given you a different one? Anyway I admit shot was on target. If someone is […]
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I was taught risk management the classic way. You know, risk log, voting for probability and impact, finding out which risks are the most painful, deciding on mitigation plan, discussing results etc. A cool thing in this old-school process is that it activates different members of the team. Even those, who wouldn’t be asked otherwise. […]
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Kanban, as any other methodology, isn’t a silver bullet. There are situations and teams when it shows its full potential but there are others where its impact will be limited. Where Kanban suits best then? Micro-sized teams It is said Scrum works best with teams of 7 or close to this size. Sometimes we deal […]
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Today I attended a training session where we were learning about motivation. I’ve heard pretty poor opinions about the session before, but I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t check by myself. And if you need to know these opinions were crap – training was pretty good. Anyway, we had a very small and very […]
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If you’re into Kanban you probably have heard the term swarming. Actually chances are good you’ve heard the term despite your lack of interest in Kanban. What is swarming? In short swarming is all about getting more people to do the task than you’d get otherwise, in normal situation. An example: you have a bug […]
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The other day I was asked to write an article for our company’s intranet portal. The first thing which came to my mind was “no one would read it.” Well, probably few people would but not many more. You might say I have a sad view of humanity, and you’d probably be right, but I […]
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Last week we had an internal audit in our team. If you automatically think “ISO 9001” when you hear “internal audit” let me just state it had nothing to do with ISO. We have a few so called quality requirements in the company and every team should follow them but these aren’t anything like ISO […]
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Recently I told you what a screwed way we chose to measure lead time in our team. Unfortunately I’ve also promised to share some insight how we use lead times to get some (hopefully reliable) estimates. So here it goes. Simplifying things a bit (but only a bit) we measure development and deployment time and […]
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During AgileCE conference I had a discussion with Robert Dempsey about measuring lead time. I never really thought much about the way we count lead time in our team and talk with Robert triggered some doubts. What We Measure As you already know on our Kanban board we have backlog, todo queue, several steps describing […]
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Almost a year ago I shared an advice to use test cases. Not because they are crucial during testing or dramatically improve the quality of the product (they are not), but because of value you get when you create test cases. A confession (and yes, you’d guess it anyway if you read the title): we […]
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