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I have seen different definitions for lead time and cycle time in the Agile and Kanban communities (for SW development). From Lean manufacturing: lead time is the time between the initiation and delivery of a work item. cycle time is the time between two successive...
Yesterday I run a retrospective for a group of people who were interested in the lessons learned from one project. Their intent was to look for do(s) and don’t(s) they could take for the next similar project. While deciding upon a data gathering activity, I...
The first PM Dojo! At least, it was the first PM Dojo I have heard about. For this reason, I want to share it. Inspired by many Dojos our colleagues have been doing at Thoughtworks Brazil, we –PMs and BAs-- decided to give it a try. Here are the slides we have used:...
Two of my colleagues came across a CRUD (Create / Read / Update / Delete) story, and asked me for advice on how to convince people on splitting stories. I typically prefer to have smaller stories. In this case, instead of having one CRUD story, I would have one for...
I am really proud that Thoughtworks Brazil participated on 3 great Agile Tour events held in Brazil this year: Carlos Vilela presented at Agile Tour Sao Paulo, Paulo Caroli at Recife, and Pedro Pimentel at Rio de Janeiro. And it all happened before celebrating...
It was awesome to be part of the Agiles 2010 conference at Lima, Peru. It is really nice to see Agilistas from all over America mingling together. I really enjoyed chatting about Agile in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Below is the presentation I gave at the event:...