Everyone knows about the Big List. The Top 10 Most Requested Features by Customers. The Top 5 Biggest Pain Points in our Software. The 7 Bugs that keep recurring. The 9 Test Cases that always Fail. The 4 Requirements that must be part of every story. Pick your list, but it’s a list, it might be big because of how many things are on it or big because of how important they are. Whatever the…
The biggest remote challenge isn’t about what your office setup is, what your meetings look like, the lunchtime pub sessions, how many coffee meetings you have in a day, or what entrance music you are playing. It’s about turning up every day and making sure it’s the best day for everyone on your team. Things go wrong because of Apathy, we let them drag out more when we are remote, when we are in person,…
No, you didn’t get the award, it went to someone else. No, you didn’t get the promotion, that went to someone else as well. No, you didn’t get the thing you were after all the work you put into it and now you have to start all over again. It’s easy to feel like a failure, and it’s easy to give in to those feelings but what we need from you now is to put…
The myth in Agile is that it is meant to make you go faster. It’s not. It’s about working on the right thing, at the right time and delivering value to your customer. It’s about avoiding statements like… “We shipped, but no one is using it.” “No one wanted all this extra stuff.” “It doesn’t do what we thought it was going to do.” Agile is about feedback and validation loops to ensure the right…
A process is meant for a group of people to start doing something a particular way. When a group of people follows the same thing, the group becomes more efficient. Process gets a bad rap because the image of a hammer is immediately crystalized in our minds. If everyone logs bugs in a different way that becomes hard to track, eventually the way that works for the team becomes the template, and the steps become…