Archive for the 'Planning' Category

Not Converging on an Estimate
Monday, October 27th, 2008

In his great book User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn suggests that “the goal is for the estimators to converge on a single estimate.” While discussing this with a senior product owner at a major Swedish telco (guess which one!), I came to realize that there might be a point in not converging on a single [...]

Story Cards on a Whiteboard
Friday, February 8th, 2008

I just found what might be the greatest thing since sliced bread. It is so smart, so ingenious, that it made me excited like a child on Christmas for a whole week.