What to do with an unfinished story? Re-estimate it and finish it.
Category: agile
Lessons in Bathroom Cleaning
Bathrooms are shining if you clean them often & you take responsibility for it. Same with code. It will shine if you look after it regularly.
Two Approaches to Daily Meeting
The 2 most popular ways to run daily meetings (but you should use the 2nd one!)
Why Sprint Goal?
What I observe is that the team focus (and efficiency) is very much related to having a clear Sprint Goal.
1 Week Sprint – After Few Weeks.
1 week sprint is enough to get things done once you get a hang of it. Give it a try and see how your team improves.
1 Week Sprint Hurts. But in a Valuable Way.
Is 1 Week Sprint a good or a bad idea? There is only one way to find out. It works fine for us. Here are the pros and cons.
Sprint Plan
Ah, the plans… You spent hours preparing them and then… eh…
Killing daily meeting (one dev at a time)
Daily meeting can go horribly wrong. One of the anti-patterns is to follow the “dev by dev” approach. There are better ways.
Team feedback – retrospective with goReflect
My experiences of using goReflect to run remote retrospective. Worked really well for me.
High WIP? Frustration guaranteed!
With too many tasks opened at the same time the only thing you achieve is a huge amount of frustration. Control your WIP or suffer.