I love metaphors on project management. I just read a good one by Tom Looy : "How Long is a Piece of String?". You can get an estimate by looking at it but you will get a more accurate value by measuring it with a ruler. Estimating is not an easy job, especially when it comes to predicting when a piece of …

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Dave Churchville talks about things you should care about when planning bug fixes. I totally agree with his point. On one hand, it does not make sense to implement more and more features without fixing serious hazards first. This is sometimes called creeping featuritis. On the other hand, stopping any shipping till …

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Dave Nicolette raises concerns about organisations moving to agile development while appointing "traditionally-minded" managers. Risk #1 is that these managers turn the agile processes upside down by transforming them into a Staggered Iterative Waterfall as described by Kane Mar. I deeply agree with the key statement …

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