Drunk Agile

#Nisha, Dan, and Prateek cover their preference for creating stable systems over spending time in planning sessions. What does planning have to do with Dante's circles of hell? If Agile is about continuously learning, can you really plan in advance what you will get done?

Chris McDermott stops by to talk to Nisha, Dan, and Prateek about Change Mapping. How do you look at your practices in context to figure out what to keep, improve, or discard? Come find out in this episode of #DrunkAgile. Also: Happy Birthday Nisha!

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek discuss the dogma that agile teams have to be small. They discuss their own experiences of working on large teams that were very effective, efficient, and predictable.

Dan and Prateek stick to the same whiskey and the same topic from the previous episode - Timeboxes. This time though we go deeper into the risk and complexity associated with them. Particularly in #Agile environments.

#Nisha is as active as ever, on this latest episode of #DrunkAgile.

#Nisha, Dan, and Prateek are back after a bit of a break. The latest episode of #DrunkAgile is brought to you by the word 'Arbitrary'.

From the OED: 'arbitrary, adj. & n. - Derived from mere opinion or preference; not based on the nature of things'

Does variability directly imply that your data is distributed in some manner?

How important is it to figure out which distribution your data follows?

Are you even analyzing your data if you are not using a cubic spline?

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek discuss.

Does your team get done with work early? Or does your team get done with work a few days late? Are these problems to be addressed? Is it really a problem that your #scrum team got done with the #Sprint goal on day 10 of a 14-day sprint? What if they look like they will get done on day 16?

Do you know what are the 'Two Mistakes' according to Shewhart?

#Nisha, Daniel Vacanti and I talk about these in this week's episode of #DrunkAgile.

Episode 70 of #DrunkAgile is a start of a 3-part(at least) series on Variability. #Nisha, Dan, and Prateek start off with a high-level introduction to what the word variability means in our context.

In episode 69 of #DrunkAgile, #Nisha, Dan, and Prateek talk through a replacement for INVEST as work-item splitting criteria. Re-emphasizing our preference for right-sizing and feedback over value and estimation.

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek answer an audience question about how to deal with blockers that are outside the team's control. They take a little detour into Little's Law as well.