Reinventing Existing Products – Big Bite vs Small Nibble Rewrites
Big-bang rewrites (even with AI) just create tomorrows legacy code base faster| Agile Pain Relief
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I already wrote about my top sessions for InfoQ so I will just link to them instead of| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
I keep on stumbling across posts about Agile 2008 and thought it might be worth sharing.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
[A Personal Retrospective on the Agile 2009| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
- I found only one bad session. - I saw a lot of old friends and made some new ones (Kari,| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Bonuses might get more features now, but at the cost of quality, collaboration, and a sustainable system| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Your organization has decided to become more “Agile.” Why? As we learned in a previous| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Define vision for change with a mix senior management, middle management, and doers| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Seeing an organizational change map with seven to eight proposed major changes can feel| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
If nothing changes, the control focus of the organization will destroy the Agile Improvement| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Grow a culture where frequent small changes are the norm as the pace of change increases| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Both Vision and Strategy should be created with input from the whole organization, not just leadership| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
There is just one problem, the whole concept of thought leaders is alien to Agile| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
“Focus on the customer. Build amazing quality stuff. Release frequently. Always improving.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Metrics have best before dates. Eventually you will stop getting real value from them. Throw them away| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Games that demonstrate process improvement, early delivery, small batches, and cross-functional benefits| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Applying for a job the traditional way has rarely worked well. It’s getting worse now| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Retrospectives are not Post Mortems. They're about your next tangible improvement| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
In a New York Times article: “The Rise of the New Groupthink” this week Susan Cain claims that teams and collaborative work give rise to groupthink. Groupthink is not out of the question, as Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons demonstrate in “The Invisible Gorilla” group think is a risk – cite the example of the Georgian War in 2008:| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Nearly 6 months ago I saw another Top 20 list of Agile people. I was troubled. As a result| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
As it stands today the [Catalog](external:https://scrumcommunity.pbwiki.com/Scrum+Smells) contains| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
I tested AI code generation with the Tennis Kata. It outlined the basics, but the code was bloated, hard to read, and failed in a key case.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Hardening Sprints are one of the most common Scrum Anti-Patterns. They harm quality| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Data and metrics are not synonymous. Velocity won't help your team improve| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
For the sake of simplicity, I’m ignoring anything beyond release planning (e.g. strategic,| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Companies are starting to fall into a trap, and it goes something like this, “Our| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
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We've had requests for a single page that lists all the ongoing [Beyond Scrum blog| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
I was shopping for a new pair of pants. My expected price was $75 for a decent pair of| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
How long should a Scrum Sprint be? A Scrum Sprint is a short period of time when the| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospectivce. That is a seriously low bar for Collaboration| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Effective coaching requires recognizing conflict levels, balancing skills/challenges| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
There are many ways to redefine a work environment to support greater creativity that have| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Grouping individuals together doesn’t make them a team.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Without clear acceptance criteria, the team couldn't agree on size or what to commit to.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
The team doesn't understand that Daily Scrum is for them, not a management reporting tool.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
There is no required format for DailyScrum.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
It is common in the early stages of Scrum implementation for there to be misunderstandings| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Strong language like 'Rotten Apple' implies you're already convinced| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Three tools work together: Stories invite dialogue, Acceptance Criteria define specifics, Done ensures global quality| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
At the core of any successful development project is a team. The team can either work| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
If there is a line up, cashiers just start opening lanes until the bottleneck is cleared.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Forcing change conflicts with the essential human need for autonomy| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
The longer we go without receiving feedback the more likely it is that there will be a problem| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Replace Show and Tell with Show and Play. Saving Boring Sprint Reviews one Step at a Time| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Example mapping reduces feature creep, clarifies assumptions, and finds questions early| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
People go into the office but still don't see their team, joining the same virtual meetings they would from home| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Instead of focusing on being Agile, create a shared vision of what improvement actually looks like| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
GenAI rolls dice, it doesn't think: a realistic look at what it can do and where it falls short.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
GenAI’s role in the Feature Factory: Are you automating without understanding? What are the real-world implications for product teams?| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Meetings need simple ground rules and a clear agenda| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Design reviews often fail when people due to a host of cognitive biases| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Explore how organizational structure, decision-making, and metrics contribute to the complexity tax. Learn to start simplifying| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Sprint Planning is the most underappreciated Agile event, leading to errors and misunderstandings| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Mark and his wife, Doris, along with a small group of their friends, have become very good| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Self-organizing teams require managers to support and develop, not direct and control| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Agile transformation succeeds through participation, not enforcement from top management| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Learning happens best when people feel motivated, not coerced into skill development.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Team familiarity reduces defects by 19% and improves predictability by 40%.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
[ defined a simple test to| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
How having the client as Product Owner is a bit like playing Jenga with a blind fold. Entertaining to watch, painful to play.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Most work items spend more time waiting than actually being worked on| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Games make a memorable way to learn, build a book with your team and practice Scrum| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
How we learn and hint it's not called learning styles| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Story Mapping is a simple tool to help you visualize your Product Backlog| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
At its core, Agile is a set of [Values](external:https://agilemanifesto.org/) and| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Understand how simplifying processes leads to more resilient teams. Start to identify unnecessary complexity.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
the best measures still won't measure your biggest risks| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
At Agile 2007, I attended Jean Tabaka's (author of [Collaboration| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
User Stories are a collaborative journey of understanding, not a static requirement document| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Recently I had a conversation with a long time friend that made me realize that in my| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
- Why do you need this boolean named retVal? Could it be eliminated the use of early| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Is IRCC's focus on speed creating unfair visa denials? Explore how mis-measurement clogs the system and hurts applicants.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
The underlying point is that Agile/Scrum teams use relative estimation (e.g. is this| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
- Does TDD really work? I've written about this before: [Advantages of| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
A few elements of the| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Collective Code Ownership isn't chaos, but team-based responsibility with shared standards| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Daily Scrum is about improving communication, not status reporting| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
On any project it will take from 2-4 months for the team to integrate a new person| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Let's start by looking back to where this idea stems from. As best I can tell objections| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Onboarding over task work to help new people become team members| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Code Reviews mostly find problems that good tools could spot. Pairing changes that| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Even if you haven't been laid off, I would start preparing now. You should start building| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Bring work to teams, not people to projects. Measure value, not busyness| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
In most organizations, work spends more time waiting to be worked on, than being worked on. To go faster? Look for the queues| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Product Ownership is far more than requirements and User Stories| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
prioritize value delivery over keeping workers constantly busy| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
As a Product Owner, saying yes is easy, but can lead to incoherent products. Use Stakeholder Akido to say no and protect your backlog.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Reading resources for Scrum developers to help effectiveness and efficiency.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
To be a good Product Owner, continued learning is essential.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
A good ScrumMaster knows that learning doesn’t begin and end with a workshop.| Agile Pain Relief | Blog
Big-bang rewrites (even with AI) just create tomorrows legacy code base faster| Agile Pain Relief
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