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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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XP is a “software development through the eyes of an engineer” kind of methodology. It focuses heavily on engineering practices. On contrary, neither Scrum nor Kanban seems to care much about best software development practices. But wait, if you read about Kanban a bit you’ll quickly find an advice to focus on your engineering practices […]
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I have a question for you. And yes this is one of this dumb black-or-white questions which don’t take into consideration the world is just gray. If you had to choose a vendor among the one which you trust more and the one which can be paid less what would be your choice? I pretty […]
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A very interesting discussion followed one of my recent posts about people not willing to learn. There were a few different threads there but the one brought by David Moran is definitely worth its own post. David pointed it is manager’s responsibility to create learning opportunities and incentives for people to exploit them. At the […]
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During my talk at AgileCE I mentioned three things as biggest Kanban boosters in our case: Co-location No-meeting culture A set of best engineering practices One of comments I heard about this part was: “Pawel, these things aren’t Kanban-related – they would work in any environment.” Well, I’ve never said they’re exclusive for Kanban. My […]
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There was a time when we were writing user stories to describe requirements. I’d say they worked fairly well for us. But we don’t do this anymore. We were using user stories as a technique which allowed us to describe bigger chunks of functionality. There was one bigger sub-project or module and it had more […]
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