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How Agile Teams Can Deal with Estimation Agile teams often struggle with estimation. As essential as the concepts of measurement and feedback are to agile software development, the concept of "estimation" seems to stir memories of non-agile projects, and it provokes fears of excessive process. |
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Beware of Vanity Metrics Metrics like recording the number of website visits or the number of downloads are called vanity metrics. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy writes how these metrics are misleading and how companies should start measuring actionable metrics instead. |
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How Metrics Distract Stakeholders on Agile Software Projects Metrics can be distractions to stakeholders from seeing true value in agile software projects. Stakeholders can gain more realistic insight by observing the intangibles—like accountability, transparency, and trust in teams—rather than just following the numbers on a software project dashboard. |
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Meet These Preconditions Before You Think about Project Estimations When estimating a project's release or budget, you can have only one number-one priority. If management has not thought about the constraints, they may be asking employees to cram in too many features with insufficient time. Read on for some conditions and guidelines about estimating for a project. |
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Not in the Mood: Why Emotion Prediction Software Will Annoy Many Once you get over the cool factor of all the really neat things that can be done with emotion prediction software, you start to wonder just how much companies—specifically retailers—will use this information to gain access to not only your money but also your actual emotions and moods. |
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Should You Measure Agile Adoption Effectiveness? A frequent question when organizations are moving to agile is "What metrics should we use to measure our agile adoption?" What people really should be asking is "Should we measure our agile adoption?" The trick is to figure out what an appropriate measurement is. Kent McDonald examines some methods. |
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What to Do When Your Project Slips If your project has ever slipped, you are most certainly not alone. Naomi Karten lists the reasons that lead to a broken project or one that has fallen behind, and describes what you can do to avoid catastrophe. |
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What Do You Do to Manage Software Metrics? Dealing with software metrics is one topic that is going to come up in your career. At some point, your boss or higher-up will request metrics from you or your team on the software, your process, or the people. Joe Townsend writes on how you can manage metrics. |
