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Not A Factory Anymore. A blog about software delivery, Agile and DevOps by Mirco Hering. The most Controversial Concept in Agile Delivery Estimating in Story Points. This blog post is another one of those that I should have written a while ago as the topic of story point based estimation keeps coming up again and again. To really understand why story point based estimation is important for Agile delivery, I think I need to explain the idea behind it. And be able to swap stories between teams. Here I ...
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The most Controversial Concept in Agile Delivery – Estimating in Story Points | Not A Factory Anymore
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Not A Factory Anymore. A blog about software delivery, Agile and DevOps by Mirco Hering. The most Controversial Concept in Agile Delivery Estimating in Story Points. This blog post is another one of those that I should have written a while ago as the topic of story point based estimation keeps coming up again and again. To really understand why story point based estimation is important for Agile delivery, I think I need to explain the idea behind it. And be able to swap stories between teams. Here I ...
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Agile | Not A Factory Anymore
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Not A Factory Anymore. A blog about software delivery, Agile and DevOps by Mirco Hering. How to Structure Agile Contracts with System Integrators. Focus on Dayrates is dangerous. We all know that more automation is better, why is it then that many companies evaluate the ‘productivity’ of a vendor by their dayrates. Normally organisations are roughly organised in a pyramide shape (but the model will work for other structures as well). Here is an example payment schedule:. 10%/40%/30%/20% Payment schedule ...
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Sure Ways to Fail | Not A Factory Anymore
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Not A Factory Anymore. A blog about software delivery, Agile and DevOps by Mirco Hering. Category Archives: Sure Ways to Fail. Sure ways to fail #2 Not knowing what the goal is. If you don’t know where you going, any road will take you there The Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland. How does this happen? This entry was posted in Agile. Sure Ways to Fail. May 7, 2015. Sure Ways to Fail #1 – No Time for Retrospectives. I personally like this cartoon, which pretty much sums it all up:. Retro-spective is here .
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career management | Not A Factory Anymore
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Not A Factory Anymore. A blog about software delivery, Agile and DevOps by Mirco Hering. Category Archives: career management. How to manage 100s of emails a day without going mad. Use Rules to direct the traffic. Unprocessed emails (which the rules from step 2 above sort for me). Inbox (everything rules didn’t catch). Immediate (items that come up within the day and need to be responded to in less than 24 hours). Today (items I planned for today). Tomorrow (items I am considering for tomorrow). During t...
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devops | Not A Factory Anymore
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Not A Factory Anymore. A blog about software delivery, Agile and DevOps by Mirco Hering. First of all, this was my first YOW conference and I have to say that I was impressed. I have not been to a conference with such a high density of great talks. I think the reason this is the case is that this conference covers a wide variety of topics while other more narrow conference like an Agile or DevOps conference have it much harder to avoid a level of repetition. On Options Theory and Agile. I have sat in man...
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Agile Reporting at the enterprise level (Part 2) – Measuring Productivity | Not A Factory Anymore
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Not A Factory Anymore. A blog about software delivery, Agile and DevOps by Mirco Hering. Agile Reporting at the enterprise level (Part 2) – Measuring Productivity. How not to do it! The worst possible way that I can think of is to do it literally based on output. Think of widgets or java classes or lines of code. How to make it even worse! How many lines of code have you written today? I have worked with many teams where the best coder writes very little code and that is because he is helping everyone el...
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One on Ones or “Get to Know Your Team” | Not A Factory Anymore
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Not A Factory Anymore. A blog about software delivery, Agile and DevOps by Mirco Hering. One on Ones or “Get to Know Your Team”. Help make your company a great place to work for their direct reports. Hopefully these posts will reach many supervisors and help them to be more effective while improving the team’s performance and satisfaction. Here is a quick overview of the upcoming blog posts:. 1 One on Ones (this post). 5 Principles for success (TBD). 6 Pitfalls for supervisors (TBD). So how do you do it:.