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  • Adjusting big Features to Sprints

    Many times when picking Features as execution unit, it’s hard to fit a big Feature into Sprint. This always cause the feeling of Features is too big as an execution units, leading some organization to prefer User Stories over Features, wrongfully neglecting Features over time. User Stories as execution...
  • Beautiful Code?

    I remember enjoying Jeff Atwood’s (aka Coding Horror) post about “code isn’t beautiful” . It took me a while explaining to myself why people are chasing after “beautiful code” so much. Why people are so passionate finding or forming beautiful code? Should great painters talk about beautiful colors or...
  • Version: extract releases from sprints

    Separation of Concerns Working by the “scrum book”, sprint is also a release unit, in which you want to complete all the effort you committed to your clients and demonstrate it at the end of the sprint. Well, not in my book . Sprint should be remained an internal unit of time. Sprint is used for planning...
  • Sprint: plan just enough, do it, reflect

    “Sprint” – what does it mean? Note: my definition of sprint is not by the book . It’s perfectly fine by me as I love adjusting theory to practice; I hope it is okay with you as well. Basically, a sprint is just a time window that you plan to achieve something at. Just imagine a box with your interesting...
  • Left Brain Storming

    We're doing a lot of thinking these days about which features will give us the best ROI, trying to prioritize existing features and asking ourselves "did we miss something? is there a new feature out there we left behind?". It's not easy to think about great one-of-a-kind ideas. It...
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