Category Archives: planning
Introducing Deliberate Discovery
Last year I wrote about how we are doing planning all wrong, or rather, how we seem to focus on the wrong things when we do planning. We obsess about stories and story points and estimation, because that’s what we’ve been taught to do. It reminds me of the story about a man who comes […]
The perils of estimation
Business people want estimates. They want to know how much it’s going to cost them to get a solution, and they want to know how likely it is to come in on time and on budget. And of course quality is not negotiable. Agile teams I encounter are at best nervous about estimates and at […]
Outcomes over Features – the fifth agile value?
I’ve been having difficulty recently with a trend I’m seeing on projects. What happens is this: we (an agile development team) engage with a client for a short period – typically 2-4 weeks – to investigate how we might work with them to solve their problem. During this period, we drive out lots of stories, […]
