Agile and Beyond 2013
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… Read More »Agile and Beyond 2013