You Can’t Build An MVP

MVP is an acronym for Minimum Viable Product. Ever since the Lean Startup book and movement appeared, it has become the…

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Letting Go Of Technical Debt

The term “technical debt” was first introduced by Ward Cunningham as a metaphor. It was in the early 90s, when…

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Help Professional Developers Survive

A developer’s life is not simple. Developers need to contend with adding new software features, quickly, from different customers, while…

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The Story with Story Points

I don’t like story points. I think this is part of my crusade against complexity. You can catch a glimpse…

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Estimates: Jumping To Wrong Conclusions

The main dysfunctions we concentrate on when talking about estimates are how they (and the people who gave them) are…

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How To Make The Most Of Failure

I was asked a hypothetical question: If someone caused a major failure to the business, would that be a reason to fire…

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The “Done” Fallacy

One of the earliest ideas you learn as an agile practitioner is “Done, Done, Done”. There’s a lot of thinking…

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Copy-Paste Culture

At Agile Israel conference, I was recruited to a “Hit The Experts” panel on engineering practices. Ok, I didn’t put…

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3 Questions of Effective Daily Meetings

Are your daily meetings effective? When you ask what people want from daily meetings, the answer is that they’d be…

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