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Should We Manage Both Features and Tasks?
Although it keeps people busy, managing tasks is neither interesting nor useful. Managing value created provides greater leverage and greater risk management. Jon Kern blogged last week on creating good features (rather than tasks) by focusing on value and testability. But do we sometimes need to manage tasks, too? David Anderson used the Theory of Constraints to back an unexpected answer.
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Discussion: "Decide as Late as Possible"
Lean Software Development says "decide as late as possible", but this goes against the grain for new Agile managers and team leads, who used to be responsible for careful up-front planning. Can this possibly be right? A group of ScrumMasters recently discussed the topic.
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Sign up for the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile 2006
The APLN Leadership Summit will be held at the Agile 2006 conference in Minneapolis on July 26 this year.