Monthly Archives: May 2008
25/05/08 Kanban: "Just set it and forget it!"
Late last year I set up a kanban system for a Yahoo! India team. They had lots of little features and bug fixes to work on, but they didn’t know how to organize it all to get it done. Scrum wasn’t working well because the nature of the work was too dynamic. Armed with blue [...]
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- Posted under Kanban Man!
13/05/08 Velocity is not a transitive property
In software, one thing is certain — estimates never match reality. Teams build predictable schedules by creating buffers. There are two strategies to do this: 1) by forecasting how much buffer the team needs 2) by computing buffer based on past performance. Velocity is a way compute how much real time it takes to complete [...]
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- Posted under XP, not your mama's process
