Can you read the notes on the image below? What about the next image, is it more readable? I...
Handwritten retrospective notes: Can you read it?
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combining retrospective notes
I love post-it for combining retrospective notes Post-it. One of the best inventions ever!...
Things ought to be simple
I come to believe that most product development environments and processes are just to damn confusing. Not by nature, but manmade. Let's look at bug tracking. I've spent too many hours of my live with QA and product managers to prioritize a list of bugs. P1,...
Should I have a separate team for handling bugs?
I had the pleasure to work on a very large programme of work for the past two years and I witnessed how programme has changed its structure for handling bugs. Therefore I am sharing such result on this blog post. Very Large Agile project – year 1 200 engineers (Devs...
The Agile manager is a master programmer
Lean thinking by Toyota says that managers must go and experience at the real place of work (gemba in Japanese) to learn what is going on. In the manufacturing field, gemba means the shop floor. When trying to apply Lean Thinking into my Agile management style, I feel...
Respect the elder bugs
Billy (below) is a known old bug. Old enough that it got a name and is well known to the development team. Bugs, or defects in your software, are not to be treated as pets! Make sure you close bugs fast. Do not get used to bugs. Agile software development (as...
CI, structural changes and merges
Be mindful of the amount of structural changes while in the period that will require more code merge effort. This was the message I sent to the programmers on a large agile team I have been working with.Scaling agile has a few caveats to it. This blog post is an...
Three stages of the Daily Scrum
Lately I have been working in a large Agile program. With large Agile programs, comes common large team challenges, and the need to adapt the Agile development and management practices to better suit the large team challenges.Currently the program has 180 people...