Tag: projects
What I Learned
As you may have heard, Obtiva got bought by Groupon. I’ve been traveling a bunch, so this coming week is my first full week in the Groupon office post-transition. And, well, someday maybe I’ll write retrospectively about Obtiva, but today isn’t that day. I’ll probably write about what I’m going to be doing at Groupon, but today isn’t that day, either.
Instead, I realized that month marks four years since I left Motorola and became a Rails consultant.
The Point of it All
In true blog form, a declarative statement:
Hear ye, hear ye! Any so-called Agile team that ever tries to translate “points” into actual units of time is presumed dysfunctional until proven otherwise.
You’ve done it, I’ve done it, we’ve all done it. Doesn’t make it a good idea.
In the spirit of my last post, allow me to over-explain.
A typical Agile project handles estimation by splitting the project up into smallish user stories and assigning each one a point value, typically between one and five, though different teams have different standards.