Charting unknown Waters
The Logbook of agile tales. Navigating complexity one entry at a time.
The Addiction to Urgency (Part 2/2)
Logbook Entry#09
Planning at 100% means you're already at 150%. Part 2 asks: if you had room, would you actually use it or would the system fill it before Monday's standup?
No-Plan Agile
Logbook Entry#07
The Product Backlog is not a planning tool. It's a delivery mechanism. But what does that mean exactly? And why do most organizations skip the step that makes agile actually work?
When Done Isn't Done
Logbook Entry#06
Four people say "I’m done!" Four people mean something different. How the Definition of Done quietly became a quality checklist instead of an outcome definition.
Effort = Effort
Logbook Entry#01
Organization plans blind. They estimate effort for their own team and pretend the rest doesn't exist. Here's how a team on the edge of failure changed that.