Food for Agile Thought #152: Agile Estimates, #NoEstimates, #WhyEstimates, Product Design Tools, Top-Down or What?
Stefan Wolpers
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Food for Agile Thought’s issue #152 focuses agile estimates: are they always waste or are there situations where agile estimates are useful? Moreover, in the latter case how to make sure that you provide the right estimates?
We also enjoy a sample chapter from a good book on product design, listing nine critical tools, and shed light on the questions whether infrastructure teams need product management, too.
Finally, John Cutler shares his observations on how coaching engagements often start and also come to an end. (Let’s create a list of these signs — so we can prepare yourselves for next time when it is our turn.)
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John Cutler (via Medium): The Canary Dies
John Cutler reflects on a personal pattern of how coaching engagements start — and end.
Source: Medium: The Canary Dies
Author: John Cutler
Agile & Scrum
Ron Jeffries: #NoEstimates isn’t crazy
Ron Jeffries’ view on estimates is simple: they are always waste.
Source: #NoEstimates isn’t crazy
Author: Ron Jeffries
Johanna Rothman (via HPE): IT project estimation techniques that will keep you out of trouble
Johanna Rothman shares how to deliver the ‘right estimate’ if your organization (still) requires estimations.
Source: HPE: IT project estimation techniques that will keep you out of trouble
Author: Johanna Rothman
John Cutler (via Hackernoon): #WhyEstimates
John Cutler’s article lists 20 reasons why estimates may be useful in your organization.
Source: Hackernoon: #WhyEstimates
Author: John Cutler
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Product & Lean
Laura Klein (via O’Reilly Radar): 9 critical tools for designing a product
Laura Klein shares a chapter from her book ‘UX for Lean Startups: Designing for Validation.’
Source: O’Reilly Radar: 9 critical tools for designing a product
Author: Laura Klein
Rich Mironov: Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management?
Rich Mironov advocates that a development team deserves a product manager — why burden an engineer with the associated tasks?
Source: Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management?
Author: Rich Mironov
Liz Love (via ProdPad): Product Management approaches: top down, bottom up or both?
Liz Love suggests pursuing a hybrid of the top down as well as the bottom-up PM strategy.
Source: ProdPad: Product Management approaches: top down, bottom up or both?
Author: Liz Love
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