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Yet another misunderstanding of TDD, testing, and code coverage

I was vaguely annoyed to see this blog article featured in JavaLobby’s recent mailout. Not because Kevin Pang doesn’t make some good points about the limits of code coverage, but because his title is...

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ANN: Agile Software Engineering Practices training by Isráfíl Consulting

Isráfíl Consulting is finally prepared for the first series of its Agile Software Engineering Practices training courses. This series is offered in partnership with Berteig Consulting who are...

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Report average velocity and fail 50% of the time

The question of “expected velocity” and long-term planning has come up at more than one client. A recent client conversation got me thinking, however, questioning how to interpret velocity when...

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What are Ways to Measure Productivity?

One of the most difficult aspects of doing Agile, is to find reasonable, do-able, agreeable ways to measure productivity.  Many organizations don’t measure productivity or only use very indirect...

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The Rules of Scrum: I do not track my hours or my “actual” time on tasks

Scrum considers tracking the time individuals spend on individual tasks to be wasteful effort.  Scrum is only concerned about time when it comes to the time boxes of the Sprint and Sprint meetings....

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Measurements Towards Continuous Delivery

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramI was asked yesterday what measurements a team could start to take to track their progress towards continuous...

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When the team says, “we need detailed requirements before we can estimate”…

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramThe next time the team says “we can’t estimate without better requirements” what they actually mean is, “this is...

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Agile Transformation Metrics

Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramTL;DR When asked to provide metrics to assess “how well” an Agile transformation is going, re-frame the discussion...

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Kanban: Real Scaled Agility for Your Enterprise

Your business is an ecosystem of interdependent services, a complex adaptive system. A bunch of organizations I know started their journey of increasing their agility with Scrum. That didn’t solve all...

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Towards a Culture of Leadership: 10 Things Real Leaders Do (and So Can You)

This article is adapted from a session proposal to Toronto Agile Conference 2018. Leadership occurs as conscious choice carried out as actions. Everyone has the ability to carry out acts leadership....

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