Everyone needs a backlog. If you don’t have a backlog, it doesn’t mean you are done, it means you don’t know what comes next. And that’s the value of a backlog, knowing what comes next, and taking it into account when building new features and planning for the future. When you start building out your first release, you plan for two iterations – the first release and the backlog – one is to deliver the…
Outside leaders are those that are not directly within the team or project that is being delivered but need to be kept in the know of its delivery. An Outside Leader can offer feedback, guidance, and mentorship in the delivery of a solution or they can be handed off only requesting updates where necessary. The Outside Leader doesn’t care what methodology, framework, or tools you use – if you need something, they want to get…
You will miss deliverables. They will slip. Something will crop up that will make it impossible for you to hit. The questions that matter more are; Did you give people notice weeks or hours before? Do you have a backup plan? Are you short on resources to accomplish the goal? What changed that impacted things? Often we aren’t concerned about the missed deliverable, but why it happened, when did we think it was going to…
Sprints are a race to get work done in a smaller period of time. We’re not rushing to get work done, hopefully, we’re taking on just what we can, but the word itself is a sprint – so we are trying to get it all done. Farming on the other hand, is slow, meticulous, and planned out by pre-determined steps that take a period of time to accomplish. You can’t demonstrate farming at the end…
There are 85 steps you need to take to deliver that project. All 85 are important. You can’t skip one and expect to be successful. There is an order to those steps that you know are the path to success that you need to take. In your head, you can see them all coming together and working and crystalizing in front of you. But your team can’t, your stakeholders can’t and your customers definitely don’t…