31 Mar 2021 | Leadership
Experienced folks, leaders, and new developers share something in common. They fall in love with a specific technology. This favoritism leads to some fairly pointless debate and, at its worst, some poor decisions.
24 Mar 2021 | Leadership
There are few topics that create a ruckus on command like estimation does. I thought I’d share 6 different ways you can estimate the work ahead.
18 Mar 2021 | Leadership
In this article I give a quick explanation of what constraints are, and how they can hold groups back or spark innovation.
17 Mar 2021 | Leadership
New project with new technology? This article using test-driven development (TDD) to learn and deliver under pressure.
10 Mar 2021 | Leadership
Estimating projects, huge ones, seems to be an activity that causes groans and protests. I understand why. Often there’s a tension between accuracy and knowing that they can’t be accurate. When confronted with estimating a large body of work, I employ a variation on affinity estimating that takes 10 minutes and gives a preview of where the monsters are hiding in the road ahead.
03 Mar 2021 | Leadership
A recurring theme for my clients is knowledge transfer from one group to another. With these transfers’ regularity, one might expect a certain level of expertise in these transitions, but more often than not, they are full of challenges and surprises. So here are my current thoughts on how to handle knowledge transfer.
