I’ve always been a big fan of helping teams visualise work better. In the old days one method I loved to use was to print out product backlog items or tasks and place them next to the bits architecture diagrams or wireframes we were currently working on, on the team white board. It helped us […]
read moreThe idea of Best Practice is universal and seductive! I’m often asked for best practices for Scrum or how to scale Agile. We instinctively want to know the answer and have the recipe for success.The message of this blog is, please don’t be a “Best Practice Sheep”! So what is best practice? Here’s one definition: […]
read moreIf you’ve had your Microsoft 365 account for a while, you may have had SMTP Auth enabled by default. Most email clients no longer need SMTP Auth enabled, disabling it can also reduce your attack surface significantly. I have seen audit logs in Microsoft Entra tenants where there are relentless attacks via SMTP Auth regardless […]
read moreThis is more for my own reference, so I can come back to it later, hopefully its also helpful to others. I saw some odd behaviour with SignalR where a client was not receiving messages from the server or would fire some client messages but not others. Refreshing the page solves it but on the […]
read moreLong story short, it’s a myth… You got time for the long story? The key thing is your board needs to flow and the work on the board needs to be valuable to our customers. It is impossible to cut them down to all the same size without lots of extra work or by making […]
read more‘So much unplanned work just hits us and we have to deal with it! ‘ This is a phrase I often here from teams when discussing the flow of their work. This team just seemed to accept that this is part of life and crack on. But this was not an isolated incident, and as […]
read moreAt least once a week I hear someone say something like ‘Our people like Scrum as it gives them a goal to drive towards, in Kanban there is no goal and they feel like they are on a hamster wheel’ What a load of rubbish!! There is absolutely no reason you cannot have a goal. […]
read moreThis is one of the great debates! But the answer is not always black or white in reality. Let’s look at the value we get from an estimation process: For me, these three things are the most important pieces. The understanding, alignment and management of things that could impede us. The fourth thing we get […]
read moreThe Ripple Rock blogs have been on DasBlog for a long time. It was a great blog engine in its time with a small footprint because it stored all of its data in XML and didn’t need a database. However things have changed and we finally decided to take the plunge and move over to […]
read moreI play the ‘Get Kanban’ game a lot as part of my Kanban System Design Class and it never ceases to amaze me how reactive people are to expedite a ticket for whatever reason. This is also reflective of what I see in real life. The team are busy working away and then a ticket […]
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