Why Story Points Don’t Work in the AI Era, And What Should Take Their Place Instead.
Imagine this scenario at your next sprint review meeting: You're looking good on your velocity graph. But half your team is struggling in their own li…
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Your PM Retrospectives Are Lying to You
Every quarter, product teams hold retrospectives. Someone asks "what went well?" and "what didn't?" The team lists bullet points. Someone writes "we s…
5 million planning poker votes later: the most common card is 3 🃏
You know the moment. Everyone's picked a card, the host hits reveal, and you find out whether your team is roughly aligned or about to spend ten minut…
From Supervised to Independent: A Six-Month Framework for Mentoring Engineers
This is about the specific, repeatable mechanics of taking a junior engineer and moving them in roughly six months from "needs review on every task" t…
I gave Claude six months of our retros. It found three things I'd missed.
There's a thing PMs do that nobody puts on a job description. Every couple of weeks, after a retro, you flag three or four items in your head as thing…
User Story vs Use Case: A Developer's Guide to Getting It Right
Every sprint planning session has that moment. Someone writes "Use Case: User logs in" on the board, and someone else says "shouldn't that be a user s…
We moved daily standups into Slack
Every standup tool I've shipped, used, or watched a team adopt eventually loses to the same thing: people forget to open it. The product is fine. The …
Why Your Story Points Feel Arbitrary (And How to Fix It)
This article was originally published on Medium . I just feel it is "2", no, I think it is "3". When I first came across story points, I always wonder…
Your Scrum Isn't Scrum. The Scrum Guide Is 13 Pages. Your Process Has 300.
Originally published at theendofcoding.com . The Scrum Guide is 13 pages. The terms "user story" and "epic" never appear in it. The word "velocity" ap…
Building Side Projects Fast: A Step-by-Step Guide
TITLE: Building Side Projects Fast: A Step-by-Step Guide TAGS: side projects, agile development, productivity, time management As developers, we've al…