Two velocities: Gross vs Net.
A few years ago in Dr. Dobb’s Journal I wrote about estimating on agile development projects. In that article I discussed burndown charts and how to extend them to show an estimation range. The basic...
View ArticleRanged Burndown Charts
Previously I discussed the difference between gross velocity and net velocity and now I’d like to show why they’re important. A ranged burndown chart, an extension to normal burndown charts which...
View ArticleRanged Burndown Trend Charts
A few days ago I wrote about ranged burndown charts. Interestingly, if you track the ranges over time you end up with a chart such as the one below which corresponds to the estimating cone of...
View Article11 Strategies for Dealing With Technical Debt
I was recently asked how is technical debt addressed in Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), a very important question. Because DAD promotes a full, explicit delivery lifecycle there are many...
View ArticleThere is more to Agile Transformations than Implementing Scrum
With some basic agile training and help from an agile coach it can be relatively straightforward to enable several teams to be able to produce increments of consumable software every two weeks....
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