Builders Pick Stories
2025 May 5
Complete Stories Rather Than Tasks
2025 May 2
Merging and Splitting Stories
2025 April 30
“Flying Fingers” Estimations
2025 April 29
The INVEST Acronym : Testable
2025 April 28
The INVEST Acronym : Small
2025 April 25
The INVEST Acronym : Estimatable
2025 April 24
The INVEST Acronym : Valuable
2025 April 23
The INVEST Acronym : Negotiable
2025 April 22
The INVEST Acronym : Independent
2025 April 21
End by Value, Not Completion
2025 April 18
The ROI Pump
2025 April 17
Yesterday’s Weather
2025 April 16
Hurried Catch Up Work Brings Pressure and Bugs
2025 April 15
Four Quadrant Game
2025 April 14
First Planning Meeting
2025 April 11
Story Point Estimation
2025 April 10
Keep Stories Brief
2025 April 9
Trivariate Estimates
2025 April 7
Estimates are Intentionally Imprecise
2025 April 4
Accept Work and Own It
2025 April 3
Own Your Estimates
2025 April 3
Cutting Corners
2025 April 1
Give the Builders Knowledge
2025 March 31
Customers Can’t Demand Fixed Scope & Fixed Time
2025 March 28
Customers Right to Cancel, and Keep Value
2025 March 27
How to Keep Change Affordable
2025 March 26
Change Is a Right, Not a Penalty
2025 March 25
Incremental Value for the Customers
2025 March 24
Customers’ Right to a Plan
2025 March 21
Who Are The Customers?
2025 March 20
Programmer Rights
2025 March 19
Manager and Customer Rights
2025 March 18
The Business-Builder Divide
2025 March 17
Keep Learning, Keep Teaching
2025 March 14
When the Answer is No
2025 March 13
An Estimate Isn’t a Promise
2025 March 12
Teams Don’t Have Heroes
2025 March 11
QA Finds Nothing
2025 March 10
Fear Removal Button
2025 March 7
Don’t Let Fear Steal Improvement
2025 March 6
Keep Getting Better
2025 March 5
Keep Software Easy to Change
2025 March 4
Celebrate Change, It’s Why We’re Here
2025 March 3
Software Is Supposed To Be Soft
2025 February 28
What Does Your Code-base teach?
2025 February 27
Continuous Cleanup
2025 February 26
Make Deployment a Business Decision
2025 February 25
Focus on Finishing, Not Starting
2025 February 24
We Will Not Ship Crap: The Builder’s Promise
2025 February 21
Thirty Computers in the Room
2025 February 20
Upping Our Game: Professionalism
2025 February 19
Extreme Programming
2025 February 18
Business Value Order
2025 February 17
When “All of it by New Year” Meets the Data
2025 February 14
Go Fast by Going Well
2025 February 13
Should We Add More Builders?
2025 February 12
Kill The Hope
2025 February 11
Rhythm Not A Sequence
2025 February 10
YAGNI – You Aren’t Gonna Need It (Yet!)
2025 February 7
Why Teams Don’t Split Huge Stories
2025 February 6
Does Your Team Avoid Updating Code Comments?
2025 February 5
Runaway Process Inflation
2025 February 4
What Makes The Velocity Chart Useful
2025 February 3
The Velocity Chart Problem
2025 January 31
Scientific Management (Taylorism)
2025 January 30
Sprint Or Marathon?
2025 January 29
Which Projects Work Well With Agile?
2025 January 28
The Iron Triangle
2025 January 27
The Iron Cross
2025 January 24
The Elephant in the Room: Agile Workflow Incompatibility
2025 January 23
What Happened to The Agile Movement?
2025 January 22
What is the Agile Software Development Approach?
2025 January 21
Agile Is a Small Idea
2025 January 20