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Via a private message: Agile Rhapsody – Bohemian Rhapsody Parody – Scrum Team Building – Agile … on @YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/26

About half a year ago, someone shard this with me [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Via a private message: Agile Rhapsody – Bohemian Rhapsody Parody – Scrum Team Building – Agile …  via @YouTube”.

It is a great video about agile, the manifesto and scrum: spot on.

–jeroen

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28 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns – Agile Transition

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/23

Food for thought: [WayBack] 28 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns – Agile Transition

The most important one I learned: keep 20% slack and 20% technical debt+bugs (on a legacy system even more of the latter). This sounds like 40% waste, but is in effect a huge win as it makes the team much more flexible in responding to spikes, supporting team-mates (or cross functional teams) or having an off-day.

Via: [WayBack] 28 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns – Agile Transition – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/19

Learn more about the product discovery anti-patterns that can manifest themselves when you try to fill Scrum’s product discovery void. #agileantipatterns #productdiscovery #productroadmap

Source: [WayBackProduct Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Via: [WayBack] Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

 

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A (sad) security user story – The Isoblog.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/11

The sad thing is that most security people do not like these kinds of user stories:

As any user, I never want to get a “denied” message, but a “in order to do what you want you are missing the X permission” message in order to be able to track down the root cause and request the appropriate permissions more easily.

Source: [WayBackA (sad) security user story – The Isoblog.

Related: [WayBackUser Stories and User Story Examples by Mike Cohn

–jeroen

Via: [WayBack] A (sad) security user story… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

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What not to estimate: defects, spikes and (in during sprint planning): stories.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/06

A few nice reads on that not to estimate and why:

Related:

Via:

–jeroen

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THE OFFICIAL SCRUM HANDBOOK by JEFF SUTHERLAND : SSM : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/15

The Internet Archive saves more than web sites:

A digital audio recording of the seminal Jeff Sutherland Scrum Handbook – with manual related figures in a distinct pdf Enjoy!

It comes with illustrations and book as PDF files in the downloads.

Source:

–jeroen

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Interesting take by Robin Message on Twitter: “I wrote an thing: How Scrum disempowers developers (and destroyed Agile)”

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/16

A very interesting first post that promises to become a series: [WayBackRobin Message on Twitter: “I wrote an thing: How Scrum disempowers developers (and destroyed Agile)”:

The article is at [WayBack] Lambda Cambridge – How Scrum destroyed Agile and part two is at [WayBack] Lambda Cambridge – How Scrum disempowers developers (and destroys agile) already mentioning part three, so it is indeed becoming a series.

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Stop using anemic daily stand-up questions | Software on a String

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/15

TL;DR:

Reminding everybody of the actual purpose of the daily stand-up and of the goal(s) you have for the sprint may be all that’s needed to give the shortened versions some much needed context and focus.

Always read the Scrum guide, as it states the purpose of this meeting:

The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team to synchronize activities and create a plan for the next 24 hours.

Source: [WayBackStop using anemic daily stand-up questions | Software on a String

via: [WayBackMarjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

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Definition of Done – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/02

“It works on my machine.” is just the start of  reaching DoD (:

Definition of Done Definition of Done

–jeroen

Source: Definition of Done – Programmer’s Life : Programmer’s Life

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How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics that Actually Matter — JavaScript Scene — Medium

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/09

I fully agree with Kevin Powick who wrote Good article. Not only applicable to commercial website development, but almost all commercial software.

“You only get what you measure, so be careful what you measure.”

How One Jira Ticket Made My Employer $1MM/Month: 7 Metrics that Actually Matter — JavaScript Scene — Medium

And more highly valuable tips when writing any type of software.

Somewhere in the middle are his golden additions to the Agile values:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

If that doesn’t look familiar, you really need to read this.

I’ll add some more of my favorite dev team values:

Skills over titles
Continuous delivery over deadlines
Support over blame
Collaboration over competition

After that he focuses on a few of them explaining where you could go completely wrong and how to do it “the right way”.

Highly recommended reading.

–jeroen

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