Agile How to Estimate Story Points With Multiple Teams (via Mountain Goat Software) Two common mistakes: 1) estimates that don’t reflect the abilities of the teams (i.e., estimator is too far from the work to understand how to size it),…
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Professional Development – 2020 – Week 9
Agile Tying the Investment Tier Back to Agile Delivery (via Leading Agile) Many transformations start grass-roots (team level) where there’s delivery. How do we scale to the program level (related projects)? Then to the portfolio level (all org efforts)? Then…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 8
Business How Do Consumers Feel When Companies Get Political? (via Harvard Business Review) With the rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) the increasingly political polarization, companies may not be able to dodge picking a side on certain issues such as…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 7
Agile Is tasking developers with creating detailed estimates a waste of company money? (via LinkedIn) Project management techniques work best when the individual chunks of work are of known size and complexity. Having developers come up with estimates that are…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 6
Agile How to Eradicate the Word Project (via Agile Amped) This was an interview with John Willis and Dominica DeGrandis; I don’t think the title is correct, as more discussion was had about making work visible. Here are a few…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 5
Agile Rethinking Velocity (Part 1) (via Reid Evans) Velocity is a typical measure of how well a team is doing and how much work they can plan for. This post asks us to consider velocity is a vector that has…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 4
Agile Why Agile Methodologies Miss The Mark For AI & ML Projects (via Google News) The title is aligned with my current company and role — using machine learning in an Agile environment. I also pride myself in occasionally reading…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 3
Agile Iteration Planning We’re trying to establish sizes of stories, so I wanted to see what SAFe prescribes. Story points are mentioned, but it seems like you could use whatever unit you wanted — hours, points, etc. — so long…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 2
Agile Modernization Case Study at CSG (via Agile Amped) It’s risky to go dark for 18 months and $100M to modernize Take a piece of the system over time using version control, infra automation, testing, CI, feature flags, code porting,…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 1
Career Don’t Quit Until You Ask Yourself These Questions (via Lifehacker) What aspect of this situation is making me want to quit? What’s the problem here? Can I fix the problem? If I can’t fix the problem, will it improve…