Practising XP (Extreme Programming)

In this episode, we discuss a common tendency of managers comparing different teams based on velocity.

In this episode Chirag and Akshay talk about an antipattern of using story points as a way of estimation. Quite often teams start using the points themselves as targets and start measuring success by completing story points.

This is the final episode in our series on estimation.

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk circle back to the problems that they enumerated with time based estimates and see if a story points approach can solve those problems.

We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions.

Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Music by Lee Rosevere

This is episode 6 in our series on estimation.

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay discuss the XP game - the XP approach to planning.

We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions.

Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

This is episode 5 in our series on estimation.

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk about how to answer the second important question "How fast can we go"

We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions.

Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

This is episode 4 in our series on estimation.

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk about separating the two questions "How big" and "How fast" and only answering the question "How big" really well.

We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions.

Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

This is episode 3 of our series on estimation.

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay discuss how its difficult even for project stakeholders to track progress and respond to delays if you are using time based estimates.

We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions.

Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Music by Lee Rosevere

This is episode 2 of our series on estimation.

In this episode, Chirag and Akshay talk about the various kinds of pressure created by time based estimation and its ill effects.

We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions.

Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Music by Lee Rosevere

This is episode 1 of our estimation series.

In this episode, Akshay & Chirag argue that any time based estimates that you ever give will be wrong.

We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions.

Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp

Music by Lee Rosevere

Chirag and Akshay talk to Vidhi, Tejashree, Anil and Rahul about what incremental / evolutionary design is and what it means in terms of mindset and practices

We are eager to hear your Comments, Suggestions and questions.

Join in the Practising XP community on Telegram. https://tiny.cc/practisingxp