By: Olga Kouzina
@Mikhail Regarding “clients that expect to deliver and fast”: I can’t say any better than Kevin Schlabach did in the discussion thread of this topic in LinkedIn
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@Casey As Justine Decker puts it in this discussion: “it is generally human nature and especially in social or work groups to push critical work off in the absence of a time-boxing element”.
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I agree with Michael D…Sprints are deadlines based on known velocity. If velocity is known then deadlines become the time by which something must be finished or submitted….I would add that deadlines...
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If we are talking about deadlines imposed by business areas, customers etc. I would say we do not need it. In my experience, business areas push deadlines on IT seldom because they “need” something by...
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I LOVE working in the flow, with quality as the one and only decisive matter. Kanban and lean concepts are WONDERFUL to work with, and I promote that in all of my consultig projects. But speaking in...
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Alexander – Thank You! If software development were happening in a bubble, all this would be more relevant. Deadlines are necessary to coordinate with all the other pieces it takes to make it work. If...
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Deadlines are mostly damaging. To the product, and to the team members. But the client/stakeholders just can’t get enough of them. Great post.
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There's an extra part to your point 3, which is to make the current work and future queued work more visible so that the client can see what is being worked on, what's waiting and how quickly work...
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and I'm doing a trade deadline chosen not a lot going on Dustin Penner was obviously the big deal but did anybody see the Bruins had done their work in the week or two before. The Kevin DuPont of the...
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Sorry, I’m so late to comment on this. Just wanted to share my idea: when doing scrum, I’d call sprints not deadlines but checkpoints. Yes, you have to deliver something for each sprint, but there will...
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