Agile
Story Points are vanity metrics
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 14/07/2023
Story points are vanity metrics
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In Person
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 28/08/2022
Working In Person has advantages we lost during COVID
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Lean Ball Game Variation
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 26/04/2022
Lean ball game - focus on variable demand
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Your agile team assessment is all wrong
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 16/03/2022
Agile Team assessments assess the wrong thing
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Kanban helps you achieve agility, it’s not an Agile Method
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 15/10/2021
Kanban helps you achieve agility, it's not an Agile Method
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How to unlock the “frozen middle” to enable organisational agility
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 04/08/2021
Unlock the frozen middle to enable organisational agility
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How to survive in a world of agile delivery
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 29/07/2021
Program and Project managers new to agile - how to survive in a world of agile delivery
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Kanban Campfire Retrospective
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 08/12/2020
Kanban Campfire Retrospective - get deeper understanding of your Kanban system with the team
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If only we had better estimates
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 06/10/2020
Better estimates are not necessarily going to solve your problem
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Story Points – should you use them?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 28/08/2020
Should you use story points
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Are product owners a broken concept?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 29/07/2020
Product owners are a broken concept
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Option / Backlog item expiry date
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 24/06/2020
Backlogs often become a dumping ground for ideas. Some of those ideas are good, others might need some exploration before...
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High performing team or better cross team interactions?
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 07/05/2020
A high performing team might make the difference in a small organisation, but as you grow its requires teams of teams to reach outcomes. Optimise the right thing for those outcomes.
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“It’s on the Backlog”
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 24/02/2020
I've heard this being said a number of times with teams and it often reminds me of the story the...
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Uncovering embedded options through a bias for delivery
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 17/02/2020
I've recently been thinking about a number of experiences in my career where organisations who have a bias for delivery...
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Use options instead of backlogs
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 12/02/2020
Often we become constrained in our thinking by the language we use - a good example is the use of...
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The Melbourne Cup Retro
By Daniel Ploeg
/ 04/09/2019
I've been doing this retrospective format for a number of years now and it's been very useful. Given that we're...
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