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Early Warning System

I was giving a course today, and we were talking about whether to do agile release planning at the beginning of the effort. (I guess I must add that release planning always means release plan...

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Agile Release Planning booklet ver 1.08

Here is our latest Agile release planning booklet: “Joe’s Approach to Agile Release Planning.”  31 pages, including a table of contents.  Free now. PDF format. Some ideas or explanations are included,...

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The term ‘release planning’

Mike Cohn has a good blog post about this, here. I will agree and then slightly disagree. Release Planning I think should normally mean planning the next release.  So, as Mike says, we are looking...

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Kent McDonald on Release Planning

Here is a good article on release planning. Includes a video. Enjoy.

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Do high benefit/cost work!

Tom DeMarco wrote an article a while ago: “Software Engineering: An idea whose time has come and gone?” (2009)  I guess I am just catching up on my reading. One topic is: are metrics useful. I think...

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Latest ‘Agile Release Planning’ ebooklet

I am pleased to announce that I have completed a full edit of the booklet. It covers: * Vision * Product Backlog * Business Value * Effort * Risks, Dependencies, Learning, MMFS, and other * Ordering...

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Question: How to order Stories in the PB

Question from a former Class Attendee: Another question, this time about ranking user stories. In the recent Scrum Master course, you indicated we should rank stories in the PB (Product Backlog) by...

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They still want us to deliver too much in too little time!

In a class, we had a large group of people from one company.  And the company is doing or getting close to doing mostly Scrum. But the managers and the Board have not been to a Scrum class. In any...

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Predictable project or innovative project?

Mike Cottmeyer spoke at Agile Carolinas last night. And said many good and useful things. One thing he talked about is this: What kind of project do you have?  At one extreme, do you have a project...

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CBA: new Maserati vs. used Lexus??

Ladies, Please forgive me. I have to make an obvious point with some guys. And you know how guys can be. Sometimes you have to make it really obvious to them. *** We need to know the BVPs (business...

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4 Announcements

We are happy to announce 4 things. 1. New LeanPub Book: Joe’s Agile Release Planning. Some of you may have seen a prior draft. It is revised now. And published. I expect to have some further revisions....

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Deliver Faster

Why do we want to deliver fast, and then faster? Well, the first reason is…that’s what the customer wants. The customer is thirsty. They want a drink now. She does not want to wait for 3 months to get...

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Squirrel!!

The movie Up! is pretty good. Animation, but a lot of bits that adults can enjoy. My kids were watching and I was also watching, out of the corner of my eye. There was one scene: the bad dogs are in...

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Why I prefer ‘Release Plan Refactoring’ to ‘grooming’

I was just doing a course with Dave Muldoon in Canada. One of the workshops was scaling. In that context, we discussed release plan refactoring or product backlog grooming. To me, the Scrum community...

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ALN RDU: Joe’s Agile Release Planning

I had the pleasure of talking with the Agile Leadership Network group in RDU tonight. First, there were a lot of smart people there and I enjoyed it. Here are some things I forgot to say or did not...

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What does it mean to be ‘Ready’?

Jeffry Hesse wrote this blog post. And it inspired me to write the post below. The new Scrum Guide says that PBIs (product backlog items) must be well-understood and granular enough (just before going...

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Agile Contracts – Question 1

Adela asks this question: Imagine we have a brand new project. And we must bid on it, and we want to use the agile-scrum method.  How should that work? This is a good and a hard question.  I will...

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Planning Poker Tools

Mike Cohn has the phrase ‘planning poker’ registered.  So, this is acknowledgement of that. And, like Kleenex, that’s what we call the thing itself.  It no longer has a generic name. And, as some...

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Question: The Basics of Agile Contracts

Melinda asks this question: How can SCRUM/Agile Methods be effectively leveraged for responding to RFP/proposals for Fixed price & Fixed Date contracts especially when the SCOPE (I.e. Product...

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By: Andrew Fuqua

Hi Joe.<br />Would you object to someone calling Release Planning, executed just as you describe it, a sprint zero?<br />thanks

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