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Fire Hazards
Once upon a time there was a team of dedicated, intelligent, passionate developers and QA engineers who worked on XYZ platform at ABC company. Every day they came to work with the intention of building the best dang platform that ABC had ever seen. However, this team was NOT the original builders. They were the…
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Hackathon How-To
Recently, my company did its second-ever hackathon. It was somewhat thrown together, but I think the results were amazing. It provided all the scrum teams with a much-needed break from the everyday grind, but more importantly, it gave them the opportunity to work on something they felt passionately about. My company wants to give these…
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CustomMade design sprint with Google Ventures Design Studio
This is a really good way to get a product off the ground, and the ramp-up is relatively short! I’d love to try this!
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Agile Metrics: Be careful what you ask for
Albert Einstein once said, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” Ain’t that the truth? When looking at agile projects, there are a few very obvious ways to track team progress. You can look at sprint and release burndowns, velocity charts, cumulative flows, etc. However, what the…
Scrum Bubbles 