Exploring probabilistic estimation and Monte Carlo simulation for Scrum, and I can't shake the feeling that practitioners tend to simplify variation in throughput as being a static variable over time. But throughput, ability to refine, work item size, confidence, work item composition, solution/codebase viscosity and team composition all change over time. Accounting for all that means your throughput sample sizes shouldn't span too long a period of time. #agile#scrum
You know how to figure out how much is in a sprint? Work as fast as you can, then in two weeks see how much you did. What would you have done better if you had estimated the individual stories?
The most defining characteristic of failing projects I’ve encountered is leadership that doesn’t like hearing bad news or brands people as difficult for wanting to bring up the elephant in the room.
These projects always end up failing with the leaders being the only ones surprised
Very interesting #SERadio#podcast episode where Jason C. McDonald presents a new approach to define #scrum story points that take into account the things that I haven't made sense to me: How do we factor in how well we know the code? How do we factor in that different people in the team have different skill levels?
Anyone using a #zettelkasten tool like #obsidian, #joplin, #roamresearch etc) - do you really use the graph view and what does it help? How do you integrate it into your workflow?
I first thought I'd try it because I love mindmapping a lot, but I couldn't really make use of the graph so far.
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The debate around the #Zettelkasten often reminds me of the discussion around #Scrum (another productivity framework, ha!). I know no one who uses it in an "orthodox" way but everyone creates their own kind of flavour of it.
If you change #Scrum (instead of your org) then you've missed the point.
The reason to try Scrum is to reveal the efficacy of your current ways-of-working. Scrum will disrupt environments that suffer dysfunctions like lack of transparency, ambiguous priorities, & invisible work.