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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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Test cases are here for a long time. Used equally willingly by these who work with heavy-weight processes and those who choose the agile way. They can be stored in an appendix to documentation in BDUF (Big Design Up Front) project or be written on yellow cards along with user stories. Where’s their main value […]
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That’s the old story: we suck at estimating. Our schedules tend to be wrong not only because there are unexpected issues but mostly because we underestimate effort needed to complete tasks. There’s one simple trick which allows improving quality of estimates. It’s simple. It’s reliable. It’s good. On the minus side you need some time […]
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It’s always a difficult situation. The last project was late and I don’t mean a few days late. People did a very good job trying to rescue as much as they could but by the time you were in the half you knew they won’t make it on time. Then it comes to these difficult […]
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Unit testing is such a nice idea. Developers create tests as they develop working software. Then they (tests, not developers) are executed during every build and it’s verified whether something hasn’t been broken over the way. Unfortunately unit tests very often doesn’t work well even when team formally boast they employ this practice. Why? 1. […]
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