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Stop using story points?

published January 26, 2012

I just read an interesting article about replacing story points with number of stories implemented in a sprint. Check the whole article by Vasco Duarte: “Story Points Considered Harmful – Or why the future of estimation is really in our past… “. After reading Vasco’s article I returned to my old project that I had some data still available. Was the number of stories completed in a sprint normally distributed? Well, [...]

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Agile vs. Lean Six Sigma

published November 2, 2011

Are these two related in any way? Is Lean Six Sigma some ancient process improvement method that has nothing to do with software development? Now that I’ve covered Kanban vs. Scrum I thought it would be a time to compare Agile to Lean Six Sigma. Five domains of system categorization Before we dig into Lean Six Sigma I should clarify some terms that will be used. A leader’s framework for decision making [...]

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tags: Agile, Design of Experiments, Lean, Scrum, Six Sigma