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You already know how our team looked like and what concerns I had with implementing plain old Scrum. You also know we chose “take this from here and take that from there” kind of approach to running our projects. Our base method was Scrum but we were far, far away from accepting it the orthodox […]
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So I found myself in this small team, part of a bigger company but working pretty independent of the rest of people here. Kind of start-upish environment. I knew every single person I worked with. Well, actually I’d chosen most of them and hired them here. The team was great (if you guys are reading […]
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My current team works with Kanban for some time already. For all of us this is a kind of experiment on live organism. Ongoing experiment. That’s what led me to an idea of The Kanban Story – a set of posts which are a logbook of our cruise with Kanban. The story has its beginning […]
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The other day I had a discussion about leadership and management. When we came to an argument that there’s no chance to advance to a position where you can facilitate leadership and management skills in discussed organization several people (from present and from past) automatically came to my mind. They all have the same problem […]
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A lot of discussion on estimation recently. A lot of great arguments but a lot of good old mistakes we’ve already went through. This brought me to a few random thoughts on estimating techniques. Estimation technique which involves discussion between different people is better than one which just simply uses their estimates as input. Using […]
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Agile is such a capacious term. Under the flag of agile we do different things. Scrum is agile. And XP is agile. Scrum-in-the-name-only is also agile. We go with no plan whatsoever and that’s so damn agile is agile too. Yes, you say the first two are true agile and others are fakes just tainting […]
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A boss came to a worker: – Would you come to work on weekend to rescue project? – And what would be the reward? – asked poor little worker. And there was no answer. Actually the unspoken answer was “I don’t really know” or “I don’t want to say” or “Don’t mess with me, kid.” […]
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There was a company, which was doing reasonably well. When times were good they were growing stronger. Some people were leaving, as it always happen, but more were coming on board. Since things were rolling fast no one really had time to stop and verify whether all new faces are doing fine. Some time passed. […]
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While explaining another thing which I thought was obvious for everyone in the team but appeared as not clearly communicated the question came back to me: is it possible to over-communicate in project? I dropped the question on Twitter and expected answers like “Hell no!” Or “Maybe it is possible but no one seen that […]
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I’ve already told you that writing test cases is worth the effort. What I haven’t stressed are shortcomings of test cases. If you take time to prepare test cases you most likely do it for the reason and I guess not for “my manager will fire me if I don’t” one. You want to invite […]
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