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My Experience With Growing A Developer Culture

Scrum.org

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Examples of a Developer Culture.

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The Truth About Transformations

Leading Answers

Iterative development of small batches of work, with frequent reviews, provides better insights into progress and issues than sequential, large-batch development. As organizations realize software represents a market differentiator, they recognize their systems will never be “done.”   Summary.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

Although I understand measuring productivity could work well for repeatable activities, it's hard to believe it works well for abstract and, ultimately, non-repeatable tasks like software development. We engineers should always keep in mind that software development is usually one part of many others inside the company.

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The Truth About Transformations

Leading Answers

Iterative development of small batches of work, with frequent reviews, provides better insights into progress and issues than sequential, large-batch development. As organizations realize software represents a market differentiator, they recognize their systems will never be “done.”   Summary.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature at a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty. At a minimum, at the end of every week, a Scrum team assess physical percent complete at the end of the Sprint.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

Yes, this is the basis of any closed loop control system from keeping the room temperature for a specific setting, to the speed control on your car, to managing software development projects in the presence of uncertainty, using any software method you choose. This approach gets you a D in the statistical assessment class.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. For software development starts with. maybe a read of the resources of Estimating Agile Software Development may help. Almost impossible?