You will find this funny now. I announced this article without having any clear idea of the answer behind the WHY question. I have perfect examples of HOW we suck and WHAT to do to fix that. But WHY? Well, that’s what I planned on finding out as a direct consequence of having to […]
Category: Agile
And then there was Scrum
Don’t be surprised. I already wrote a pretty lengthy article – “Scrum. From developers perspective“. However, I’ve received some “complaints” as well arguing the length of the article itself (hint: it’s pretty lengthy and goes into the depth of it). Hence, I’ve decided to write a summary of it. And this is what this […]
Deadline and The Beast
For most of my career, I was the one who would always complain over the deadlines. Why the hell do we have them? Why are you bothering everyone to estimate stuff instead of letting us do the actual work? Why the hell are you trying to limit my creativity by trying to put a calendar on it? […]
Retrospective of a Retrospective
You know, I think that Sprint Retrospective has to be the second most hated misunderstood meeting; first one being, you guessed it – a Daily meeting. And yet, that’s a pity. It’s a pity because this is not just something that we should be doing as part of our job, but as part of […]
The Product Owner’s Curse
I worked with many Product Owners. Dozens, to be more precise. Youngsters and oldies; aggressive and chilled-out; domain experts and newcomers. And yet, one thing is for sure – boy, do I think that role is cursed! I will focus this article on the traits that I found useful in POs that we enjoyed […]
Oh no, daily again!
This has got to be the second most discussed “issue” (first one being “story points vs hours”). “Why do we have dailies?” “What’s the purpose of reporting (or raporting) my status day after day?” “Why am I being micromanaged?” etc. Truthfully, I’m in favor of them. Seriously. I guess we could probably do without […]
Story Points that mistook themselves for Hours
It’s funny really. For whatever reason, I always assumed that pretty much anybody who uses story points actually knows WHAT they are. And why they are different than hours. Yet, as in pretty much all of my assumptions that I end up writing about – I was wrong. And not just “wrong” but wrong […]
Scrum. From developer’s perspective.
Funny enough, every Scrum related article that I’ve read was written by Scrum master / coach / advocate / whatever. Or, at least the ones that present Scrum in a positive light. On the other hand, most developers that I know, either dislike it or have heard negative things about it. I do know […]