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When I started introducing agile methodologies in private life and in my family I thought I have to do it the right way. For me this included story estimation. It turned out that for me this is not the right way of organizing my free-time and projects in our family.
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“Fail fast, fail often”. You read and hear this sentence a lot in the agile world. It is supposed to be a good practice. But why exactly is this a good practice - not only in agile? First of all, failing feels bad, right? You usually invest time and energy.
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Nowadays kanban is considered to be an agile software development methodology. In fact, it is also a synonym for a token that is running through a kanban system. Kanban has its roots in physical manufacturing at Toyota. That was in the 1940s. At that time the basic idea was to
Focus
For some time already my wife and me take multiple people as an example to reduce the stuff we own and that usually accumulates in your shelves. Over the past years we were able to establish some kind of ritual to do this often. I still remember the move to
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We have our dog for three years. Time passed by pretty quickly. I can say that I learned a lot in this time about dogs: how they behave, why they behave like this (although this one is quite vague), what they do differently compared to us humans. However, there are
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The world in general and my environment specifically gets filled with more and more distractions. Concentrating and getting stuff done is not easy in this surrounding. There might be people that are able to cope with this. Sometimes it is also for me possible. However, if there is a constant,
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I already gave a short overview of retrospectives in the context of software engineering teams. There are several books for this available and I won't go into detail about this. What I would like to focus on in this article is how we in our family do weekly
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I already presented my actual priority backlog in a former article. When I started using it I asked myself how I will be able to really work on the priorities I wrote down. The key of learning First things first: if you really want to learn something the key is
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A sprint is an iteration and at its end user value should have been created. It includes the sprint planning at the beginning and at its end the sprint review and retrospective. The sprint includes short daily sync meetings called daily scrum or stand-up. The software engineering perspective The sprint
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When a scrum team is founded one of the first things to do is to set up a working agreement. A working agreement is a contract between the members of a team. All members should adhere to the contract at any point in time. A working agreement in scrum usually
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Maybe your family is still manageable - only you and your partner. Maybe it is rather big with you, your partner, kids, a dog? Whatever the size of your family might be there are always small (or big) projects going on, stuff that needs to be communicated and things that
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In a previous article I wrote about how I try to keep focus when learning new things. While learning I made mistakes that - in retrospective - I would like to avoid in the future. Learning Years ago I got interested in Ruby on Rails, both personally and professionally. So,