Story Points as Spicy-ness; Using RSP to estimate Story Points
I’ve long struggled with the concept of Story Points and how to effectively communicate this to clients. It’s never been a natural concept for me, and most explanations of Story Points are half baked. Explanations such as “Story Points are relative measure of complexity”; are quickly countered with “What about situations where something is not … Read more
A career model for Agile Coaches
With the increased interest in Agile software development, Agile coaching has become more and more popular. Companies are introducing Agile coaches to their teams firstly as contractors and then as permanent staff. They often do this without fully considering the role of the Agile coach within the organisation, or of a career path for the … Read more
Where are we (or Life on the Pukinskis Graph)?
In the realm of software development there is a board spectrum of different processes currently in use; from the very complex where each and every change to is analysted and designed many different different ways, to chaos where changes occurs without control or testing. My good friends Alex Pukinskis, Jason Lewis, and I were discussing … Read more