Scaling Software Agility

I’ve had an On-again, Off-again, love-hate relationship with software metrics throughout my career. The On part is: of course we have to measure ourselves, less we  a) not advance the science of software engineering in any credible way, and b) not provide any professional, quantitative input to the fiduciaries and key stakeholders who ultimately determine the [...]

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Last year, when I was writing Agile Software Requirements, I was researching various strategies (algorithm is too strong a term) for prioritizing user stories, and perhaps more importantly the features of a solution, and even higher on the economic food chain, the portfolio epics that drive the solution roadmap. (That’s where the real economic leverage [...]

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