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(cough! cough! "scrum") (cough! cough! "agile") (cough! cough! "daily stand-ups")

• jingleheimer 8y ago
  I always felt that agile processes were a means to give non-answers to performance measurement in order to allay the consequences of that measurement and allow developers to get on with the business of making software. How big is the task; 10 story points How long will that take; depends on our velocity Can it be done by this date; we're not allowed to plan that far ahead. You can put it in the 'icebox'. We might get to it eventually.
  • pmwhite 8y ago
    Yes, definitely true. If (1) everyone is highly effective in getting tasks done, and (2) working on tasks that are reasonably well prioritized by both technical risks and business value, why exactly do you need to know more? There are legitimate reasons that a business may need a date. But making sure people are working harder than hard by beating them over the head with a date coughed out by a gantt chart is not one of the legitimate reasons.
• ozim 8y ago
  Kind of we started optimizing for points and started to be smart about it. Because that what people above wanted. What happened we started communicating to PO more often, like: you want more points burned take this story out, close this and create an improvement. Of course that was not childish silly sneaking and turned out we have as a team a lot better partnership with business. We deliver what is needed and can be finished. I understand not everyone has luck to end up in such environment but it confirms there is no silver bullet. Only having right people is real silver bullet.