Sponsor: Using RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus in your .NET systems? Well, you could just use their SDKs and roll your own serialization, routing, outbox, retries, and telemetry. I mean, seriously, how hard could it be?
Jim Benson (@ourfounder), author of Personal Kanban, was the keynote speaker at this years Agile and Beyond conference. Overall, I had a great time again this year and found the sessions I attended to be very insightful and reaffirmed some of my opinions. One little thought I wanted to share was from Jim Benson’s keynote:Velocity is the single most useless number invented by human beings.Effort points are estimates. Guesswork. The velocity metric is a calculation of that guesswork.
We took something as inherently variable as an estimate and we gave it an integer value.I thought this was pretty amusing when I really started to think about it.