Comments on: I don’t believe in IPMs

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:16:26 +0000

@Andy – yes it is moving more towards a KanBan approach. I like the ritual of iterations at the moment, because I am so forgetful, I like to be reminded of what I accomplished in a week. I would be willing to give it a try though.

@Christian – All stories have been estimated when they are created (ie have release level estimates) and they don’t change throughout the release. When you prioritise the stories, you take into account their estimate. So ideally, you wouldn’t have a situation where you would have 5 large stories in your bucket at once.

By: Christian Blunden

Christian Blunden — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:38:01 +0000

Mental note: something to talk about on monday, but you may want to address this in your blog…

1. Is there any indicative size to a story? and is there any early warning as to when it is ‘blowing out of proportion’? or is it a case of that a story should take as long as a story takes?

2. Could say 5 super huge stories be placed into the bucket with no possible chance of completing them within an iteration? Do you think the story bucket is your goal, or just a semi-prioritised set of work, and your “goal” is what ever you complete in an iteration? (hence a celebration no matter what)

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:04:07 +0000

Excellent post. If you remove the iterations, you are describing Kanban.
When people are new to working in a way that provides fast feedback and fast response to change, they need clear rules to give them reassurance that they are doing the right thing.
Iterations, planning games, retrospectives at specific intervals are the supporting structure for these rules.
As teams become more effective at working in this way, they start to instinctively do these things at more frequent intervals, for example, retrospecting at the end of a story or having a mini-planning game at the beginning of a story.
The structured elements start to become less relevant and can be phased out or adapted to something new.
This closely matches the ShuHaRi learning model.

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