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Agile, Kanban, Scrum, iterations, retrospectives etc. Working in an agile way is something I’ve done for years. Here I share my experiences. Enjoy!

ALE Kraków, Lightning Talk on Forecasting

Posted on August 23, 2022November 1, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Slides from my ALE Kraków Lightning Talk (15 minutes) about estimation & forecasting.

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Sprint Sheriff

Posted on May 17, 2021November 8, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Try rotating your team roles in a round-robin fashion. Each sprint have a different team member responsible for repeatable (and often mundane) activities.

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Parallel Universe

Posted on May 10, 2021November 1, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

How to measure what is hard to measure? This one trick can help.

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Simple & Powerful Sprint Capacity Planning Technique

Posted on February 2, 2021February 8, 2021 by Tomek Kaczanowski

A simple trick that could help you better predict the capacity of your next sprints. All you need to do is to gather some more data about the past ones.

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Yes You Should Re-Estimate

Posted on July 14, 2020November 8, 2022 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, 2020November 4, 2022 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, 2020November 2, 2022 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 3, 2022 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, 2019February 7, 2021 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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