One of my favourite agile thinkers recently wrote about Real Options without mentioning them. To me, talking about real options is not a revolution, or totally new insight, but it gives me a word to use for the practise of postponing decisions until the last responsible moment. I did a talk on real options last [...]
We will be hosting a short series of talks about agile software development this autumn. I’m first up, and I will be talking about the bottleneck in software development, and how agile practices help. If you speak Swedish and feel like getting free breakfast and a little inspiration – send us an email! More information, [...]
Churning out story points is not enough. You have to build for tomorrow, not just for today. Something I see again and again is teams breaking their backs trying to produce as much functionality as possible. The business have a great tool for measuring the productivity of the team (story points), and this leads everyone [...]