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Essays from June 2014

3 essays from June 2014

1. 01

   Coming out of the closet – the life and adventure of a traditional project manager turned Agilist

   I’m coming out of the closet today. No, not that closet. Another closet, the tabu closet in the Agile community. Yes, I was (and to a point still am) a control freak, traditional, command and control project manager. Yes, that’s right you read it correctly. Here’s why this is important: in 2003 when I first …

   27 June 20144 min readteams

2. 02

   Humans suck at statistics – how agile velocity leads managers astray

   Humans are highly optimized for quick decision making. The so-called System 1 that Kahneman refers to in his book “Thinking fast, thinking slow“. One specific area of weakness for the average human is understanding statistics. A very simple exercise to review this is the coin-toss simulation. Humans are highly optimized for quick decision making. Get …

   24 June 20143 min readteams

3. 03

   Creating options by slicing features – #NoEstimates technique

   Each feature (or story) in a product backlog contains many undiscovered options. By taking features as they are without slicing them into thin slices of functionality we implicitly commit to an implementation strategy. However, when we slice features we create options that allow us to pro-actively manage the scope of a project. Let’s return to …

   12 June 20142 min readteams

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