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Yes You Should Re-Estimate

Posted on July 14, 2020October 4, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

What to do with an unfinished story? Re-estimate it and finish it.

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Lessons in Bathroom Cleaning

Posted on February 26, 2020March 15, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

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.

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Two Approaches to Daily Meeting

Posted on January 19, 2020October 13, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

The 2 most popular ways to run daily meetings (but you should use the 2nd one!)

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Why Sprint Goal?

Posted on November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 by Tomek Kaczanowski

What I observe is that the team focus (and efficiency) is very much related to having a clear Sprint Goal.

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1 Week Sprint – After Few Weeks.

Posted on October 12, 2019October 12, 2019 by Tomek Kaczanowski

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.

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1 Week Sprint Hurts. But in a Valuable Way.

Posted on September 16, 2019October 13, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

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.

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Sprint Plan

Posted on September 12, 2019October 13, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Ah, the plans… You spent hours preparing them and then… eh…

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Killing daily meeting (one dev at a time)

Posted on August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Daily meeting can go horribly wrong. One of the anti-patterns is to follow the “dev by dev” approach. There are better ways.

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Team feedback – retrospective with goReflect

Posted on January 27, 2019August 28, 2019 by Tomek Kaczanowski

My experiences of using goReflect to run remote retrospective. Worked really well for me.

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High WIP? Frustration guaranteed!

Posted on October 18, 2018October 13, 2020 by Tomek Kaczanowski

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.

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