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Agile and DevOps So Far
The old saying about the one thing that we can all count on as a constant is change? This year has definitely been more than enough change for me, I’ve had multiple adjusts to our Agile methodology,...
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Agile Tasking – Why You Should Be Tasking Out Stories
There are five levels to Agile planning: Product Vision – What are you building, why, when and for who. Product Roadmap – Everything related to the releases needed to meet the vision; themes, features,...
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Strategic Planning for Teams
Creating strategic plans for an individual team is not something I’ve found is common but I feel it can be worthwhile. Typically, we are given goals and do the work to figure out how to achieve them,...
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Resource Planning
One of the most common questions I’m asked about running Agile projects and teams is how do I do resource planning. The short answer is that it’s a three or four step process; understand available...
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Agile So Far – January 2016
2015 was an odd year for us; we had a few projects that didn’t involve our product owners with people that don’t use Agile methodologies causing lots of frustration and timing issues, we took over...
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Weekly Wrap Up – Asana and Elevate
One Thing I Learned I picked up quite a few Word hacks this week from getting back into the writing habit, I’m using the spike and have added a bunch of new keyboard shortcuts to my arsenal. My...
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Measuring Success – Projecting
We ended last year with of an average of 40 completed points per iteration. It’s much less than what I thought we were going to have and I’m still a little on the fence as to what exactly causes the...
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Agile So Far – August 2015
Our last couple of iterations have been challenging in that old issues are popping up again and some bad habits/coping mechanisms have snuck back in. I’m also realizing that there are times that we are...
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Velocity – Understanding Your Points
I started this project to help me find the right data points to assist not only with better iteration planning but also to help me plan future iterations with a solid estimate of what we typically...
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Velocity – Reporting vs Predicting Progress
This is my team’s burndown chart, what we use to communicate progress across all groups and how we measure progress against the plan. You may notice that there are a few data points that aren’t...
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July 2015 – Goals
Projects We recently took over support for two existing .Net applications, both of which have a significant amount of technical debt, while we’ve been able to fix things it’s getting to the point where...
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Agile So Far – January 2015
Our 31st iteration started off with an Agile review meeting where we had an open discussion on what changes we’d like to make, ideas for the future and a few minutes from me on addressing reporting...
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Innovation – Creative Abrasion
Two things connected for me recently in a stars aligning kind of way. Years ago, 11 in fact, I purchased a creative abrasion training guide for my team thinking that it would a good tool when working...
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Measuring for Success
I have read recently that one of the worst things that you can do when measuring the success of your Agile implementation is to use measures to influence people’s behavior. Meaning instead of using...
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January 2015 Goals
Projects Housekeeping Every year we take a look at all of our data warehouses reviewing not just the age of the data but also things that may have changed; business logic that may no longer be valid,...
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Estimating with Agile
Why do you need to estimate well? Imagine that you’re a lender; you review loan requests, negotiate the terms and the repayment plan all up front. These are agreed upon and even signed off on by all...
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Agile So Far – October 2014
Estimation When we started our Agile implementation our ability to predict when projects would be completed was at an average of 30% of the time. Almost immediately, well within six months, we had...
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October 2014 – Goals
Projects This month we’re wrapping up a two new data warehouses, since both are with new user groups we’ll be doing a ton of training and are expecting quite a bit of enhancements as they start digging...
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February 2014 Goals
2014 Release Planning I am about 75% there! Most of the plan is done and we are currently working as if it is set and stone. However, I have one customer that pushed back our meeting and our...
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Release Planning
My release planning is a little different than other agile teams I’ve encountered and it deviates somewhat from what I believe the excepted method of developing one is, as well. In any given iteration...
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