Category: Agile
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Estimation Frustration
Turning a Team’s Hatred of Estimation into a More Productive, Less Stressful Practice If you’ve worked in Scrum for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that estimation is one of the most universally disliked activities in software development. It’s not that people are lazy—it’s that estimating is tricky business. It feels like predicting the…
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How to Actually Measure Scrum Success (It’s Not What You Think)
When executives ask “How do we know if this Scrum thing is working?”, they’re usually bracing for some elaborate new measurement framework. Here’s the twist: you probably don’t need one. This might sound anticlimactic, especially to consultants selling complex measurement dashboards. But there’s psychological genius here: people already resist change, so why pile on unfamiliar…
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Is LeSS More? Scaling LeSS vs SAFe
So you’re trying to scale agile beyond a single team, huh? Been there. After years of writing code and then somehow ending up as a Scrum Master (funny how that happens), I’ve seen organizations wrestle with this question: do we go with Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)? Spoiler alert: it’s complicated,…