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Drive: How We Used Daniel Pink's Work to Create a Happier, More Motivated Workplace
David Mole discusses what happens to an organization when focusing on happiness and motivation as your key measures and all the other KPI’s take a backseat.
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Epic Estimation - Agile or High Risk Guesswork?
Ian Hawkins discusses the value in epic estimation, how to handle business expectations, what influences epic estimation and what makes it effective.
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Metrics-Driven Prioritization
Sam McAfee outlines an approach they are using at Neo to help their clients integrate business metrics and probabilistic modeling into their prioritization process.
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Plan a Project in 10 Minutes - or How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Little's Law
Chris Young explains how he is using Little’s Law to estimate a project’s delivery rate.
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Forecasting Delivery, with Oranges
Dan Brown explains the difference between forecasting and estimating, and how one can better forecast delivery with less effort and more accuracy than with estimation.
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Estimation for the Real World
Chris Trevarthen discusses how to reduce the amount of time spent estimating, providing more meaningful estimates, and building trust with the business.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Estimates
Seb Rose wonders if estimates are worthwhile and discusses what business people – Steve McConnell, Demarco, Lister, Disraeli - have to say about this.
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The Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment
Chris Chapman teaches delivering software without estimates through the Great Canadian #NoEstimates Puzzle Experiment, asking the participants to collaboratively build a jigsaw puzzle.
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The Guessing Game - Alternatives to Agile Estimation and the #NoEstimates Debate
Neil Killick exposes the risks inherent to the estimation culture, proposing practical alternatives for the project and spring level.
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Visual Management: Leading with What You Can See
Craig Smith, Renee Troughton discuss improving visual management: different types of story walls, ways to visualize the product backlog, the important of queue columns and WIP limitation, etc.
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The Guessing Game: Alternatives to Agile Estimation
Neil Killick proposes ways to reduce risk and uncertainty, calculate a product’s price, determine delivery dates and roadmap, do Scrum and XP without using estimates.
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Agile Metrics and the Deadly Sins of Agile Measurement
Steve Lawrence showcases several agile metrics supporting an organization’s objectives, but also addresses some of the bad metrics and the 7 sins of Agile measurements.