by Steven M. Smith
What critical lesson have I learned about the process of making an estimate?
Have your most pragmatic, experienced people do the estimate.
Minimize the number of people who are members of the estimating team. A team size of three, in my experience, is ideal. That’s enough members to trigger divergent estimates, which creates arguments, which leads to [...]
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by Steven M. Smith
I argued in my first article about stand-up meetings that the right participants were the key to a successful meeting rather than whether the participants were standing up or sitting down. Despite my dislike for forcing people to stand up, I mentioned in that article my positive regard for other elements of the standard stand-up [...]
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