Software Process and Measurement Blog

Jumping The Work Intake Queue Part 2: Work Intake Antipatterns

In the first installment of our essay, Saying Yes To All Work, I mentioned that the class exploring the topic identified that “when the CEO tells you to do something,... Read More

Jumping The Work Intake Queue Part 1: Work Intake Antipatterns

Late on the second day of a three-day workshop, a hand came up a table at the back of the room. I had noticed the person getting increasingly fidgety as... Read More

Stop Saying Yes To Everything: Mastering Work Intake

Stop saying “yes” to everything! “Mastering Work Intake,” by Thomas M Cagley Jr and Jeremy Willets, gives you the tools to prioritize and deliver the right work at the right... Read More

Fluffing Team Capacity: Work Intake Antipatterns

I remember a television show from my distant past, Kids Say The Darndest Things (in re-runs). In the version of the show I first remember, Art Linkletter would ask children... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 4, Chapter 4 – Process Behaviour Charts

Charts. The chapter corrected a misconception I have had for at least twenty years which we will get to in Part 2 of our re-read of chapter 4 (we are... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 3, Chapter 3 – Variation and Predictability

Vacanti begins Chapter 3 of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti, by reminding the reader: “A predictable process behaves in a way we expect it... Read More