
What Parkrun has taught me about Estimation
The duration of time to run 5kms will vary widely between runners due to complexity, fitness, elevation and effort. Relative Estimation is the key.
The duration of time to run 5kms will vary widely between runners due to complexity, fitness, elevation and effort. Relative Estimation is the key.
What makes an agile team great and why? After coaching a number of teams in Scrum, we’ve now seen a number that, after a some months now, could be considered high performers. Some of these go bad and reject any external criticism regardless of how accurate that might be. Why do these teams go bad? Groupthink might have the answer.
Teams love to get credit for their efforts, but is that what you should do if a User Story gets 1/2 way there but doesn’t get to Done in the Sprint? What should you really do with the remainder of the work?
If your an agile coach, just knowing Agile, or Scrum, or how to set up a Kanban board won’t be enough to get you though the complexities involved in successfully performing the role and being an agile leader. Seek to expand your knowledge and capabilities and practice intentionally as part of your own continuous improvement.
Design Thinking is an excellent tool for considering where to invest in user research activities, but in the context of complex product development, it might not be enough.
So you’ve just finished usability testing in your Sprint and have a pile of changes for your agile team to implement. How do you break down the UX changes that are needed to make a product useful, usable and accessible, into smaller, bite-sized User Stories?
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