Story Points: Why are they better than hours?
Story points give more accurate estimates, they drastically reduce planning time, they more accurately predict release dates, and they help teams improve performance. Hours give worse estimates, introduce large amounts of waste into the system, handicap the Product...
Hackathons: Developing Developers
Next weekend the sponsor AngleHack and two student groups at UCLA are throwing a huge hackathon. LAHacks will bring together students and alumni from Southern California’s premier technical schools in hopes of fostering a more cohesive start-up community. It seems...Why Hours Don’t Work
There has been a lot of debate within the business world about the merits of time sheets. Some think tracking hours is an important metric while others feel that they are a waste of time. In the Scrum community there is a similar debate: should the team use points or...
Nativity Scene: How Scrum was Born!
IROBOT’s Genghis Khan now in the Smithsonian I joined Easel Corporation in 1993 as VP of Object Technology after spending 4 years as President of Object Databases, a startup surrounded by the MIT campus in a building which housed some of the first successful AI...
Scrum & Big Data
I’ve been reading Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger and Kenneth Cukier’s stimulating new book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think. The premise of the book is, now that civilization has the tools to both collect and analyze huge amounts data,...6 Agile Ways To Increase Employee Engagement
Organizations who utilize Agile ways of working experience a 20-30% improvement in employee engagement. Engage, Equip & Empower your employees.
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