Friday, August 20, 2010
Acceptance tests ain't noise pollution
Posted by Simon Baker
I had an idea for a splash screen for a future Energized Work session about acceptance test-driven development but then a friend suggested a t-shirt.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Boards for a more user-focused discovery-oriented approach
Posted by Simon Baker
Backlog out. Mind-map in showing user activities and high-level tasks
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Sketchnotes made during one of our training sessions
Posted by Simon Baker
You might've already seen these sketch notes but I wanted to publish them on this blog because, well, I think they're just wicked. They were drawn by the inimitable Tim Malbon at Made By Many during an Energized Work training session.
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
PDCA-powered learning
Posted by Simon Baker
Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle is a scientific method for problem resolution. But it isn't just about resolving problems in a timely fashion. Used properly it raises awareness of context in order to solve a problem by identifying and removing its root cause so the problem won't recur and thus improve the long-term performance of the system.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
If you're estimating, know why you're estimating
Posted by Simon Baker
Estimates are lies and estimating is waste. That doesn't necessarily mean it can't sometimes be useful. It's still waste but used at appropriate times, in appropriate ways, and understanding the flaws in the results it can help things along with business and finance people and clients. People just have to realize that it's just not possible to be any good at estimation. The best you can hope for, and certainly what you should aim for if you have to do it, is consistency rather than accuracy. If you're always consistently over or consistently under that's enough for reasonable planning.
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