Planned Attention

Back in the days of what we now call Waterfall, requirements were king.Intelligent people got together to spell out features long before the first techy got involved.The Requirements Gathering and…

Crowded roadmaps, huge backlogs, sprints stuffed to the gills. Being busy is the norm in software development. With all the talk about sustainable pace, the average team is still racing…

A plan for today is more straightforward than one for next year. Uncertainty grows exponentially over time. The closer we are to a task, the clearer it becomes.That makes short-term…

Estimates are at the heart of traditional project management. We break the work down into tasks, guess how long each of these will take, and build a mosaic in Excel.…

I remember the days of non-iterative software development. Teams would start churning out features from day one and quality was a worry for during the "testing phase". The last few…

When we talk about scaling a team, we think about scaling up. Adding more people. More throughput. More power. What we don't often discuss is the very common case of…

People can multitask. Of course, we can. We can take a phone call and look for a pen while cooking pasta. We can do a few tasks at the same…

Building software products together requires great communication. With so many people involved, success depends on how well these partners collaborate. In the last two decades, communication regarding software products has…

We've all faced that struggle of modern-day life where the checkout at the supermarket turns into an unfair battle. The minute you start unloading your cart, the race is on.…

Work In Progress Limits are the main attraction of a Kanban-style workflow. By limiting the number of concurrent tasks in a certain state to a hard number, the team gets…