Last week I published this cartoon on LinkedIn. It went instantly viral: Tokens spent (as well as the other metrics shown) are of course not meaningless, but everyone got the joke: The latter point generated some interesting conversation. One commenter threw the ball back into my court: “Great point. The harder question remains. What are […]
An awful lot of effort is going these days into boosting product teams’ productivity: getting them to burn those story points faster, deliver the planned scope in every sprint and cycle, and generally ship more stuff, faster. The term “development velocity” is often thrown around by executives, but what they’re actually aiming for is upping
Stop Obsessing Over Development Velocity, Focus on This Instead Read More »
There’s something inherently problematic about the way we plan our products and services. An uncomfortable truth that’s rarely stated. David M. Upton and Bradley R. Staats wrote the following on IT projects: “The fundamental problem with these systems is that for the most part, they’re constructed using what programmer and open source champion Eric Raymond