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I remember one of first post ideas for this blog back then, 4 years ago. It was about choosing people to promote them to management roles. I’ve never published the post and I’m glad about that. A few years ago I didn’t know about hiring and promoting managers more than typical decision maker in IT […]
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Organizational changes are hard. The bigger the company is the stronger it defends its status quo. Humans wearing their employee hats aren’t so much different from those wearing their user hats – they like what they know, thus they don’t like changes. But there’s often someone who isn’t happy with current state. So you are […]
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I often hear this excuse: “I don’t have power to change this.” Hell, I use it by myself way too often. It is a convenient excuse. Since you aren’t in position to do something the easy way you take a step back and do nothing. And this is wrong. Let’s take a typical situation: your […]
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I am a chatty guy. Catch me while I’m not overworked and I will gladly jump into discussion. If you happen to be my colleague, it may be a discussion about our company. That’s perfectly fine for me. I believe in transparency so I won’t keep all information as they were top secret. This means […]
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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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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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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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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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