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Progress meetings, or Daily Scrums, are essential for team progress and adaptability in software development. However, many teams fall into common traps, such as only reporting tasks instead of fostering collaboration. With remote work and dynamic team structures, it’s crucial to adapt these meetings to encourage open discussions, diverse participation, and effective communication.
This post presents Brook’s law as a systemic issue, and how to interpret it for agile projects.
Planning Poker has become the de facto estimation technique in agile teams. Like many agile practices, it elegantly packages theoretical concepts into a practical, easy-to-follow process. This post explores the hidden foundations of Planning Poker by combining three powerful ideas: measurement theory, research on cognitive anchoring effects, and the Delphi estimation technique. Understanding these underlying principles helps teams move beyond just following the process to truly mastering the art of collaborative estimation.