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Essays from July 2013
3 essays from July 2013
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Is estimation a scam? Can a non-expert estimate as well as an expert? Help me investigate these questions!
How do you prove that estimation is a scam? Well, it’s not easy, especially if luminaries in the Agile community defend that you can honestly estimate a project where you don’t have a team available and only a fuzzy understanding of Requirements or Technology involved, or both! The fact is that many projects are indeed …
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Learning from the “Real World”, inventory in Product Development
In 2000 I was frustrated with the problems I saw in the Software industry, so I decided to study Lean (or Toyota Production System) to see if I could learn something to apply in my projects. As I studied Lean/TPS I discovered a concept that clicked. The concept was Inventory. Inventory is bad (sometimes necessary, …
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The #NoEstimates How To
You’ve probably seen a long, recursive discussion on twitter about #NoEstimates. Some of you, like William Gill may be even interested in a more concrete description that you can apply in your own projects. So here it is. This is my first attempt at a #NoEstimates How To, first presented at Turku Agile Day 2013, …
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