Why you might be wasting your time with Story Point estimation

If you and your team use story point estimation then you really need to read this. Story Point Estimation Story size is a relative sizing method commonly calculated using planning poker. The fibonacci scale is one approach but there are others including 1,2,4,8,16, and S, M, L, XL. Measuring Cycle Time Cycle time is the […]

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How to extend your planning horizon using an Epic Sizing Ruler

I joined an already established team, that had been working on a large scale Enterprise Data Warehouse implementation for over a year. I logged into Mingle and started to get up to speed with available planning data. My first step was to produce a burn-up chart to see how predictable the team were but also […]

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10 tips to improve status reporting

Infographic – try various formats of presenting your data. I find an Infographic style works really well with most stakeholders finding the format very engaging. Make it look good but if you’re struggling for inspiration on layout and design simply do a Google image search for Infographic. Totally lose your RAG. I’ve not used a […]

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How to flush out risk early and make delivery more predictable

Some software projects are more difficult than others. But what do I mean by difficult and how can we tell if a project is going to be difficult before we’ve even started it? Difficult in this context means the more difficult a project is, the less predictable the outcome is. There are a number of […]

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A Kanban system for Law Firms & Legal Practices

I’ve had quite a lot of interest in my experiences of introducing Kanban to a law firm several years ago. Although I couldn’t capture any photos of the card wall due to client confidentiality I’ve pulled together the following diagram to illustrate the key features of the Kanban system. It is from memory so may […]

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