Whiteboard Wednesday: The Probability of Getting Tasks Done
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The ability to get everything on your task list done becomes less and less probable with the number of tasks and you load into your week or iteration. The simple math of compounding probabilities is a good analogy to prove this point.
At the end of this video, what I should have said (for clarity) […]
Whiteboard Wednesday: Keeping Teams Small
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Keeping your teams small may seem obvious, but it really is necessary to keep a group of people motivated towards solving a common goal.
Mike over at Leading Answers has more in-depth break down of the communication overload that can occur, but the 2 Pizza concept that 37 Signals and FastCompany talk about is […]
Response To Effective Communication Channels
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A few weeks ago I posted the Whiteboard Wednesday - Effective Communication Channels. Mike McCaffrey had some good insights that my thoughts were only half baked and that I needed to see it from both sides of the coin.
Like the video says, the message still doesn’t change - we need to be cognizant of […]
Whiteboard Wednesday: Effective Communication Channels
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Wow! I could have been a big hypocrite because I almost did this topic as a written post, but of course it should be a face to face whiteboard…
Be sure to check out Scott Ambler’s agile communication article as it was the basis for this whiteboard discussion.
So in summary, be sure to force conversations […]
Whiteboard Wednesday: Using Your Bug Tracker For Estimation Tracking
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As I mentioned in the video above, my team does their bug tracking with Jira, and because it is flexible enough to add in custom user defined fields, I added the Points drop down list. After that, I simply created some reports using their pre-canned charts and wam-bam I have my burn up charts.
Just […]
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