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Monte Carlo Simulation: Forecasting Throughput and Project Timelines

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TL;DR: Forecasting team Throughput is super-easy and much more reliable than traditional methods, if you limit your work in Progress. Reliability confirmed by research data. We've already extensively covered Throughput (one of the flow metrics), how to analyze Throughput data from 3 key angles. And why it's better for forecasting than storypoints. Now let's get … Continue reading Monte Carlo Simulation: Forecasting Throughput and Project Timelines

5 Reasons Why Your Story Points Aren’t Working (And What to Do About It)

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Over seven years of running Story Points workshops, I've seen the same pattern: teams learn the technique, apply it for a few sprints, then gradually drift back to old habits. At my current scale — 47 teams, around 400 people in IT — 60% use Story Points, 40% don't. What's interesting: those 60% who do … Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Your Story Points Aren’t Working (And What to Do About It)

My experience in preparing to PSM II (Professional Scrum Master) certification

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Hey everyone, here's my list of resources and literature for getting prepped for the PSM II examination. I would be tremendously happy if you share yours 🙂 Sidenote: if you are "certificates are overvalued" type of person - I'd agree. This is especially true when it comes to CSM / PSM I - because that … Continue reading My experience in preparing to PSM II (Professional Scrum Master) certification

My Q&A for InfoQ on Keeping Distributed Teams in Sync

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I spoke with Ben Linders of InfoQ (thrilled to be published at that website!) about challenges and communication patterns for Distributed Teams, uncovering bits of my Atlassian Summit 2018 speech. The biggest challenge of distributed teams is communication, which is essential for establishing ground rules on collaboration. Shifting working hours to accommodate each other and team liaisons … Continue reading My Q&A for InfoQ on Keeping Distributed Teams in Sync

Ufa IT Management Meetup (24.10.17)

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2 weeks after we had the actual meetup, here's the follow-up post 🙂 Topics this time: Keynote by me on cynefin and how it fits our company projects. Had some discussion & arguing on applicacy of cynefin when it comes to rough development times, migrations, firefighting-based development. Overall, model was introduced, and the fact-and-experience-based arguments … Continue reading Ufa IT Management Meetup (24.10.17)

RU: Открываем дочку американского юридического лица в России

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This post is available in English. И делаем это без необходимости прилета в РФ американского гендира. Последние полгода я набивал шишки, ходя по инстанциям, собственно, поделюсь опытом 🙂 Задача: открыть 100-процентную дочку в России (материнская SkuVault.com находится в Луисвилле, Кентукки). Наш случай несколько уникален: CEO не мог посетить РФ, так что заверять и пересылать идентификационные … Continue reading RU: Открываем дочку американского юридического лица в России

Three-week sprints for iOS projects

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While working on Storia.me iPhone app, we've eventually came up to the three-week sprints. Empirically, they proved themselves to make product high quality and provided time to get moderate functionality chunks done. Two notes here: First of all - this is does not include time for appStore approval. That's additional week. So a release cycle is … Continue reading Three-week sprints for iOS projects