New Scrum Team Bootup

“We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesn’t understand and therefore, we ask them why don’t you just go ahead and take action, try to do something? You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures…

Accidental Agilists

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce, Ulysses   “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.” – Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth   “Our own attitude is that…

Where are we (really)?

“Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.” W. Edwards Deming. The project is underway and I need a feature-level view of where we are. Burn-down charts for user stories are great but do not give me the business-level picture. Burn-down charts calibrated in hours are dangerous – you can burn-down lots of hours…