Software Process and Measurement Blog

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 19: Chapter 20—Operational Governance in PEST Environments

A few logistical comments before we dive into chapter 20.  After this week we have three weeks left in this re-read including our customary debrief. When we decided on Tame... Read More

Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done: Hitting Roadblocks You Should Have Expected

Getting the work you commit to getting done in an iteration or sprint is not constrained to a conversation about Scrum or Scrumban. Timeboxing is common in almost all work... Read More

Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done: Taking More Work Into A Sprint

Over the years I have gravitated towards the idea that work entry issues are the single clearest indicator of problems in an organization. My first job after getting my Bachelors’s... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 18: Chapter 18—Full-Kitting as Ongoing Executive Activity

Cue the eerie sound effects from low budget science fiction movies that signal time travel. After publishing our re-read of Chapter 19 last week, Steve Tendon sent me a message,... Read More

Stories Don’t Get Done: Taking on More Than Possible

One of the classic issues that pop up when teams chronically don’t complete work they say they will, in the time they say they will is that they are taking... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 17: Chapter 19—Execution Management in PEST Environments

This week we tackle Chapter 19 of Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s  Tame your Work Flow.  Chapter 19 combines many of the moving parts from the previous chapters into a... Read More