The topic of technical debt came up in a couple of settings this week at work. I’ve written about this topic before here (among other places) but two different situations raised this issue in the past week and a third provoked an interesting set of questions. First was a response from one of my readers. … Continue reading Technical debt
Early on in this set of blog posts about Agile planning I talked about the common image of the planning onion, in which there are different layers of planning that start with the widest strategic view and progress all the way to daily planning. So far I have written about strategy and portfolio planning in… Continue reading The goal of sprint planning
As I refocus on trying to blog more regularly about life as a Product Owner in an Agile software development organization, I want to start out with a set of posts on the topic I planned to write about in the fall as I wound down my series on velocity. I planned to start my… Continue reading An Agile plan to write about planning in Agile
Over my last few posts (back in the fall) I talked about understanding and improving the velocity or productivity of a project team. The idea of achieving a sustainable and rapid development pace can be complicated by many factors but hopefully the ideas I wrote about in the past few entries have been useful in… Continue reading How new ideas impact the sprint team
I have been writing in the past two posts about finding and maintaining a sustainable development pace flowing out of reflections on the following Agile principle: “Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” I’ve written about understanding and measuring velocity and about the… Continue reading Finding a sustainable development pace
I wrote recently about sustainable development and wanted to follow this up with a piece focused around something we’ve been talking about a lot on the project teams I serve as a product owner: how can we understand and increase our velocity? Velocity is about the productivity of the development team and this can be… Continue reading Understanding velocity in product development
Over the past few months as I have been writing broadly about ‘Agility’ I have been interweaving my reflections on the Agile Principles with my thoughts about some of the specific development issues we face as a firm. As I wrap up this loose series and prepare for the next arc of blog entries about… Continue reading Sustainable development pace
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