I never refer to the daily scrum (or daily standup) meeting as a "status meeting." The term "status meeting" is too pejorative for most of us. For me it conjures images of sitting around a table with each person giving an update to a project manager while everyone else feigns interest while either mentally preparing for their own upcoming update or wondering how much longer…
I've never been a micro-manager, especially not since using agile and Scrum. I could have turned into a micro-manager early in career, except I've always been too busy to spend my time checking up on people. But, while I've avoiding checking up on teams or people, I've never been reluctant to check in with them. I was recently reminded of this by reading an article about the…
To see why a Backlog Grooming Meeting may be a few years away from becoming a Generally Accepted…
I'm thinking of buying a new car. So I've put together a list of cars to consider. Here they are in priority order:
Unfortunately, though, I'm not sure…
Because I'm so interested in estimating and planning, I always take notice when I see a new blog post or news group posting claiming, "Estimating is waste! Don't do it!" The thing that never shocks me about these arguments against estimating and planning is that they never come from the business people for whom we are developing products or systems. They understand the value…