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The post reflects on the evolution of software development, highlighting three key eras: the Age of Process, the Age of People, and the current Age of Tools. It emphasizes the importance of discipline and a balanced approach, combining people, processes, and tools, to navigate challenges and achieve high-quality software development effectively.
Timeboxing is a vital practice in Agile methodologies, enhancing productivity and predictability. It structures work within iteration-based frameworks like Scrum and XP, creating urgency and facilitating planning. In continuous methodologies like Kanban, it maintains focus and allows for efficient process improvements. Overall, timeboxing drives measurable outcomes and sustainable productivity across various environments.
Extending deadlines in software projects often reduces productivity, as evidenced by the ‘Beginning, Middle, and End’ cycle. Adopting shorter two-week? iterations enhances focus, feedback value, and engagement, while maintaining a sense of urgency. This approach stabilizes team velocity and promotes effective breakdown of tasks, ultimately optimizing workflow and delivering quality outcomes.
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.
Team composition and performance can be engineered. Thereby, the context can be designed so that a group of people can be led into a high-performing team. This context must focus on establishing shared experiences and responsibilities, rather than relying solely on team-building exercises.
This is the final article of this series.
his third article contains some Q&A that are commonly asked when dealing with velocity.
Paper of the Month: Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management.
Three topics that affect productitivy:
* Developer turnover
* Team Design
* Inter-coordination factors
“Only variation can absorb variation”
Software is intangible, is the result of knowledge work, and is very much prone to variation. In this post, variation means anything that changes the nature of work.