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  • Here is a beta version of a new book I’m working on: The Effect Mapping Handbook. Effect Mapping is simple yet incredibly effective collaborative project planning technique, that helps teams align their activities with overall business objectives and make better roadmap decisions. Effect Mapping isn’t the first or the last...

    Effect Mapping Handbook (beta): Your feedback wanted

    Here is a beta version of a new book I’m working on: The Effect Mapping Handbook. Effect Mapping is simple yet incredibly effective collaborative project planning technique, that helps teams align their activities with overall business objectives and make better roadmap decisions. Effect Mapping isn’t the first or the last...

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  • A lot of my consulting work lately has been around helping teams see software quality more holistically – that it’s not something only testers (or only developers) should be concerned about. Doing that I’ve started formulating an idea that isn’t fully baked yet – but it helped me explain things...

    Redefining software quality

    A lot of my consulting work lately has been around helping teams see software quality more holistically – that it’s not something only testers (or only developers) should be concerned about. Doing that I’ve started formulating an idea that isn’t fully baked yet – but it helped me explain things...

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  • Problems: Story is too big to split and estimate; business users don’t accept any breakdown proposed by the delivery team; team is inexperienced and thinks about technical splitting only;new project starts and no simple starting stories can be foundSolution: User Story Hamburger

    Splitting user stories: the hamburger method

    Problems: Story is too big to split and estimate; business users don’t accept any breakdown proposed by the delivery team; team is inexperienced and thinks about technical splitting only;new project starts and no simple starting stories can be foundSolution: User Story Hamburger

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  • InfoQ just published an article on Feature Injection by Chris Matts that I’ve also contributed to. This article is a high level introduction of Feature Injection and related techniques. We explain the key elements of the framework and support them with a realistic example. For more info, see click here.

    Feature Injection article is online

    InfoQ just published an article on Feature Injection by Chris Matts that I’ve also contributed to. This article is a high level introduction of Feature Injection and related techniques. We explain the key elements of the framework and support them with a realistic example. For more info, see click here.

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  • As usual, Dan North did a fantastic keynote today at Oredev. Amazon should really start paying his salary — I ended up buying several books while he was still talking. North’s central idea was that patterns for effective software delivery derive from embracing uncertainty and that the delivery landscape changes...

    Dan North at Oredev: Embrace Uncertainty

    As usual, Dan North did a fantastic keynote today at Oredev. Amazon should really start paying his salary — I ended up buying several books while he was still talking. North’s central idea was that patterns for effective software delivery derive from embracing uncertainty and that the delivery landscape changes...

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