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SPaMCAST 487 – Don’t Shortcut Shu Ha Ri, Not A Scrumdamentalist, What Works
http://www.spamcast.net Listen Now Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music SPaMCAST opens with our essay, Don’t Shortcut Shu Ha Ri. Recently I have been thinking about just...
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The Definition of Done: Simplicity and Complexity Revisited
A Simple Life! The Definition of Done is an important Agile technique to help teams plan and execute work. The simplest definition of the Definition of Done is the criteria that a work product must...
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SPaMCAST 491- When Done Breaks Production, Personal Kanban, Real Software...
http://www.spamcast.net Listen Now Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Software Process and Measurement Cast 491 features our essay titled, Can “Done” Be Allowed To...
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SPaMCAST 497 – Micromanagement, Getting a Handle, Hybrid Agile Solutions
http://www.spamcast.net Listen Now Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music SPaMCAST 497 features our essay on micromanagement. Micromanagement is a bane to employees that...
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Frequently Asked Questions: Can I Demo Work That Isn’t Done
Is A Demo A SAFe Area? I have been asked many times whether it is “ok” to include work that is not complete in a demonstration/sprint review (I’ll use the term demo from now on). The simple answer is...
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Frequently Asked Questions: The Sprint Is Over, What Do I Do With Incomplete...
When everything is done it is time to buckle and go home! When I am asked what a team should do with stories that are incomplete at the end of a sprint or iteration I am reminded of the Jackson Browne...
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SPaMCAST 508 – Product Owners and Scrum Masters, An Interview with Vasco Duarte
http://www.spamcast.net Listen Now Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music SPaMCAST 508 features our interview with Vasco Duarte! Vasco and I discuss vision and product...
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SPaMCAST 513 – Reciprocity and Passengers, Self-directed Teams, Hard...
http://www.spamcast.net Listen Now Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music SPaMCAST 513 features a second essay on reciprocity. One of the hardest lessons I have had to...
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User stories Foster Collaboration When Maintaining Legacy Applications
Step into my web said the spider to the fly! User stories are a framework to describe who needs a piece of functionality, the goal of the piece of functionality and the benefit that the “who” part of...
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The Slow End of Story Points
Story Points Are A Fence! A recent discussion with a Scrum Master colleague reminded me that conversations are filled with metaphors. Metaphors are used to simplify and represent abstract concepts so...
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Story Points: Why Did We Get To This Point
How did we get to this point! Story points were originally developed as a metaphor to give a rough answer to the question of how much functionality could be delivered in a specific period of time. The...
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SPaMCAST 521 – User Stories and Legacy Code, Software Catechism, Essays and...
http://www.spamcast.net Listen Now Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music SPaMCAST 521 features our essay on user stories and legacy code. A common question is how user...
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Story Points – A Behavioral Fix
Change Behavior To Change Value Many teams find that story points only a partially useful tool to facilitate the flow of work within a team. As noted, story points are not all unicorns and kittens....
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I Messed Up A Scrum Team Should I Do Kanban?
Sometimes you just have to . . . A friend and colleague recently presented me with a scenario and then as the punchline asked for more ammunition to alleviate the problem. The Scenario: An...
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Scrum: Putting a Genie Back Into a Bottle
Sometimes you just have to . . . You can never put a genie back into a bottle. In I Messed Up A Scrum Team Should I Do Kanban? We described a scenario where a well-performing Scrum team had their...
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Kanban: Throwing Away The Bottle
Sometimes you just have to . . . If you were not moved by the case for Scrum then the next step, just as suggested by our wayward Scrum Master is kanban. If re-committing to Scrum is equivalent to...
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Scrumban: Different Genie, Different Bottle
Sometimes you just have to . . . I was originally asked to help provide additional ideas to convince a Scrum Master that had recently joined a team due to a company rotation policy not to give up Scrum...
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SPaMCAST 536 – An Executives View of Agile Transformations, An Interview with...
http://www.spamcast.net Direct Playback Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Listen on Spotify! SPaMCAST 536 features our interview with Dave Sohmer. Dave is an executive...
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SPaMCAST 542 – Kittens, Exploding Kittens, and Risk-Based Planning: An...
http://www.spamcast.net Direct Playback Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Listen on Spotify! SPaMCAST 542 features our interview with Kevin Rush. Mr. Rush has...
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SPaMCAST 549 – Seven Issues Testers Experience Being Agile, Distributed...
http://www.spamcast.net Direct Playback Subscribe: Apple Podcast Check out the podcast on Google Play Music Listen on Spotify! SPaMCAST 549 features our essay Seven Issues Testers Experience Being...
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