A ticket goes from To Do to Done and can never move back. With all our talks of “Lean” and “agility”, our progress model seems to resemble … a waterfall.
It's never that simple.
https://mikeveerman.be/2019/12/30/your-kanban-board-is-a-waterfall/
I'm a big fan of small teams. What they lose in sheer horse-power, they make up in efficiency.
But a question the small-team proponents like myself have to answer is: when is a team too small?
Most techies seem to want to insulate themselves from them, but office politics are not optional.
https://mikeveerman.be/2019/12/18/office-politics-for-techies/
Software developers love helping people. Their instinct is to build that hotly anticipated feature as fast as possible. So how can you be pragmatic about being pragmatic?
https://www.mikeveerman.be/2019/11/29/pragmatic-software-development/
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