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Essays from 2012
4 essays from 2012
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Impact Mapping, what is it good for? A quick review
If you’ve paid any attention to twitter lately you know that Gojko Adzic has publihsed a new book. The book is called Impact Mapping, and describes a method to describe a system in a way that: helps the practitioner create better plans and roadmaps that ensure alignment of business and delivery, and are easily adaptable …
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The perfect gift for a geek…
So, as you have probably noticed: winter is coming. With it come the long evenings, the rainy or snowy weather and the unstoppable need to curl up with a good book by the fire place. Perhaps even drinking Glöggi (Mulled Wine). It just so happens that I have found a great book for you! Edgar …
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A better way to predict project release date!
Many people commented on my previous post about Story Points, and how there are much better ways to estimate Agile projects. In this post I’ll concentrate on one project where the predictive power of counting the number of stories/items completed/iteration was a better predictor of the release date and the scope delivered than story points. …
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Story Points Considered Harmful – Or why the future of estimation is really in our past…
This article is the companion to a talk that myself and @josephpelrine gave at OOP 2012. We have a lot to learn from our ancestors. One that I want to focus on for this post is Galileo.Galileo was what we would call today a techie. He loved all things tech and was presented an interesting …
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