In the agile community there’s been lately a great deal of talk about “value” and why that is more important than “process”. I also believe that we should try to optimize for value in our software environment, be it a small ISV or a big SW corporation. But what does value mean for you? The …
Some time ago I wrote a post supporting the idea of a new template for the User Story. In that post I tried to explain why we should bring the “value” (because) clause to the fore, to make it the most important clause of the User Story template. Then John Arrowwood commented on that post …
Thinking back to how we value our work, we must recognize that, in software, quantity is not value! The number of things we do in a sprint does not vary too much, we can consider it a Gaussian (assuming correct and consistent measurement) — or in Black Swan (TBS) parlance: velocity is a variable from …
