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The #NoEstimates questions, Part I
There’s been a pretty active discussion on #NoEstimates over on twitter. There seems to be a fair ammount of people interested in learning more about how it is applied. Me, I’m interested in developing #NoEstimates further. How? Last week I put out a call for action. I asked people to post questions about #NoEstimates with …
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How Agile is disrupting the Manufacturing Industry #DisruptAllTheThings
When you have spent a few years researching and practicing Agile software development you tend to not be surprised by new developments. I know I wasn’t… until I saw Joe Justice at #ALE13. Joe is working on a project to build a car that will disrupt the automotive industry. You don’t believe me? Well, what …
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Most Awesome people to follow, the #ale13 version Part II
Yesterday I posted about two people whom I think everyone interested in the topics of this blog should follow. I’ve met them at #ALE13 this year and am impressed with the work that they are doing. Today I’ll recommend two other people to follow: Kurt Haeusler: Kurt had a great presentation today on Offers and …
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Amazing content created by Agile practitioners can change lives
Have you heard of Scrum? An Agile methodology that swept the world by storm? Or Real Options? An approach that can change you manage risk and value in your projects? Or Impact Mapping? Probably the most revolutionary product management and requirements management approach created in the last 10 years? You can change people’s lives I …
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Most awesome people to follow, the #ale13 version
Here are some of the awesome people that I have met at #ale13 and you should follow on twitter: Angel Medinilla: a super energetic Agile consultant from Spain who is an Aikido practitioner (trend with Agilists?) He is a great conversation partner and I expect great things from his work. An awesome secret is that …
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What is my role as a team leader? A continuous improvement guide to help you grow as an Agile Manager
What is the role of management? As an agile coach and as a line manager I’ve gotten or asked that question several times over the last 10 years. When you introduce agile into an organization, middle managers (typically techs who climbed the management ladder) are faced with an identity crisis. I was also. I mean, …
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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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Why use No Estimates? Focusing on what matters
As I sit here with my red-wine glass and contemplate the #NoEstimates discussion on Twitter for the last few days I can’t help but think that there is a key difference in how I look at Software development when compared with some of the Agile Pioneers like @RonJeffries, or @TOtherAlistair. And I want to explain …
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Strategic Product Management challenges: from idea to products in the market
Photo by Clint Gardner @ flickr (CC-BY NC SA 2.0) I wanted to start this series by focusing on some of the challenges that we face as Product Managers. A key challenge I see repeated in many organizations is the lack of capacity to leap from idea to results, from intention to implementation.Product Managers focus …
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What is Strategic Product Management? – solving day to day problems with the long term in mind
Photo by Giovanni Orlando @ flickr The release day is close. So many things to do, how to prioritize what to do next? How to discern what is really relevant from what is seemingly urgent, but with little impact in the product? How to make decisions with a cool head when faced with a looming …
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