Growing up I used to watch reruns of the TV show Hogan’s Heroes, a comedy about a fictional Nazi P.O.W. camp (Stalag 13) that houses prisoners who assist the Allied war effort from within the camp.
In Season 2, Episode 8, “A Klink, a Bomb, and Short Fuse,” an unexploded…
One team, one product, one product backlog. Release planning on that scale is simple! Let’s see why. Take a hypothetical project where we estimate about 200 points worth of work in our product backlog. Assume that our team’s average velocity is 20 points per sprint.…
As I engage different teams I have noted a lack of clarity surrounding product backlog concepts. Although there is no universally accepted vocabulary for labeling product backlog-related things, there should at least be agreement on the basic concepts. The goal of this…
This blog is the sixth in a series about agile and risk management. The first five blogs are:
This blog is the fifth in a series about agile and risk management. The first four blogs are:
This blog is the fourth in a series about agile and risk management. The first three blogs are:
In this blog I discuss…
I get a lot of questions about speaking, including how I prepare, how I engage the audience, and so on. For example, in May 2014 I gave the opening keynote presentation at the Global Scrum Gathering in New Orleans. Immediately after I completed my speech (and…
This blog is the third in a series about agile and risk management. The other blogs are:
In this blog I introduce the concept of…
This blog is the second in a series about agile and risk management. (See the introductory blog, “Three Key Agile Risk Management Activities”). In this blog I introduce a mental model of uncertain events that I will use in the subsequent blogs.