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Continuous Delivery

Clujhub — Cluj-Napoca Romania 2020


Agile is effective and has become the standard of practice. Embracing change, coding in short sprints, an emphasis on automated testing and short feedback loops; all these things lead to improvements in quality and productivity. A decade from now, we’ll still be improving on it, but the principle benefits are realizable today by organizations and teams that take it seriously. But you’ll have noticed that software teams today haven’t exactly run out of problems as a result.

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Estimation as Uncertainty Reduction

Laracon Amsterdam 2019


What is this estimation thing anyway? The whole point of estimation is to support decisions. If an estimate doesn’t help resolve uncertainty about a decision we have to make, then it doesn’t have any value. When pro forma estimates are taken as performance targets it tends to result in a negative value. But there is substantial value in the estimation process when is understood as a quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on observations.

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Estimation as Uncertainty Reduction

Atlassian Summit — Las Vegas 2019


The whole point of estimation is to support decisions. If an estimate doesn’t help resolve uncertainty about a decision we have to make, then it doesn’t have any value. When pro forma estimates are taken as performance targets it tends to result in negative value. But there is substantial value in the estimation process when is is understood as a a quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on observations.

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Continuous Delivery as Agile Successor

Drupalcon Seattle 2019


Agile is effective and has become the standard of practice. Embracing change, coding in short sprints, an emphasis on automated testing and short feedback loops; all these things lead to improvements in quality and productivity. A decade from now, we’ll still be improving on it, but the principle benefits are realizable today by organizations and teams that take it seriously. But you’ll have noticed that software teams today haven’t exactly run out of problems as a result.

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Avoiding the Best Practices Trap

Drupal Camp Atlanta 2018


Agile development process is routinely overlaid in an attempt to bring order out of chaos, sometimes to good effect, but often resulting in fragmentation of important but undeclared processes. The future value of some fully-realized agile work-place may not make up for the losses incurred in laying down a new process. The problem is not necessarily in the new process but in how it is applied.

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Estimation as Uncertainty Reduction

Drupal Camp Atlanta 2018


Making sense of estimation strategies and understanding why #noestimation is not as crazy as it sounds.

As important as estimation is to setting customer/stakeholder expectations and ultimately to paying the bills, there is surprisingly little discussion about what makes for a sound estimation strategy.

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Estimation as Uncertainty Reduction

Chepstow, Wales 2018


Making sense of estimation strategies and understanding why #noestimation is not as crazy as it sounds.

As important as estimation is to setting customer/stakeholder expectations and ultimately to paying the bills, there is surprisingly little discussion about what makes for a sound estimation strategy.

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Avoiding the Best Practices Trap

Darmstadt, Germany 2018


Agile development process is routinely overlaid in an attempt to bring order out of chaos, sometimes to good effect, but often resulting in fragmentation of important but undeclared processes. The future value of some fully-realized agile work-place may not make up for the losses incurred in laying down a new process. The problem is not necessarily in the new process but in how it is applied.

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Estimation as Uncertainty Reduction

Darmstadt, Germany 2018


Making sense of estimation strategies and understanding why #noestimation is not as crazy as it sounds.

As important as estimation is to setting customer/stakeholder expectations and ultimately to paying the bills, there is surprisingly little discussion about what makes for a sound estimation strategy.

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Thanks for the theory

Drupal Camp Denver 2018


Agile development process is routinely overlaid in an attempt to bring order out of chaos, sometimes to good effect, but often resulting in fragmentation of important but undeclared processes. The future value of some fully-realized agile work-place may not make up for the losses incurred in laying down a new process. The problem is not necessarily in the new process but in how it is applied.

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