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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

TOP Structure - the Technology Domain

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 Too often, organizations reduce the technical aspect of software development to coding and delivering features. This, however, betrays a co...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

TOP Structure - the Product Domain

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Many companies misunderstand Product Ownership - or wose: Product Management - to be nothing more than managing the backlog of incoming dema...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

TOP Structure - the Organizational Domain

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  It sounds tautological that every organization needs organization - and yet, most companies are really bad at keeping themselves organized...

TOP Structure - the domain of Architecture

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In software, there's a critical intersect between technology, that is - how we turn ideas into working software - and our organization -...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Make - or Buy?

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Determining which systems, components or modules we should "Make" and which we should "Buy" (in extension: use from Open...
Friday, July 22, 2022

U-Curve Optimization doesn't apply to deployments!

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Maybe you have seen this model as a suggestion how we should determine optimum batch size for deployments in software development? It's ...
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Thursday, July 7, 2022

How Equivocation destroys Agile

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"Scrum engages groups of people who collectively have all the skills and expertise to do the work and share or acquire such skills as n...
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Monday, June 13, 2022

Collaboration Patterns we know from science

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Team structures - should be a straightforward enough topic, although in many organizations it isn't. Here are six phenomena you may rem...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Using metrics properly

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Getting metrics right is pretty difficult - many try, and usually mess up. The problem? Metrics require a context, and they also create a co...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Why we need clearly defined goals

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 A common issue I observe in many organizations - there's no visible goal beyond, "Get this work done," and people don't e...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Why test coverage targets backfire

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  Most organizations adopt a "Percent-Test-Coverage" metric as part of their Definition of Done. Very often, it's set by manag...
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Sunday, May 15, 2022

Dice Estimation

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Although I am a proponent of "#noestimates," that is - the concept that estimation is often the consequence of unsound mental mode...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Ten things eerily close to Scrum that you may misunderstand

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 There are some ideas around Scrum that sound a whole lot like they're based on the Scrum Guide - when, indeed, they aren't. Even wo...
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Friday, April 8, 2022

Why test coverage tagets backfire

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Most organizations adopt a "Percent-Test-Coverage" metric as part of their Definition of Done. Very often, it's set by mana...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Bugfixing team - good or bad idea?

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In many organizations struggling with quality, a gut reaction is setting up a "bug fixing team," which has only one purpose: Clean...