Agile

Story Points Stopped Working the Day AI Started Writing Code

Why estimates now mispredict in both directions, and a framework that measures what actually constrains delivery A few sprints ago I sat in a planning session where the team spent twenty minutes debating whether a story was a 5 or an 8. It was a genuinely tricky piece of matching logic, the kind of story that would have earned its 8 points in any planning poker session over the last two decades. After the meeting, the developer pointed Claude at...

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Agent-Assisted Story Crafting: Shaping Your Stories with AI

We’ve all been immersed in the hype surrounding Generative AI. It’s becoming a critical part of business operations, whether for sales, support, or analysis. As a techie, I’ve also been exploring how to leverage these tools to boost my productivity. Ideally, I’d use them for code generation and analysis. However, the effectiveness of these tools purely depends on the wielder.“A smartphone is only as smart as the user.”While everyone around me was getting accustomed to smart code completion tools, we’ve...

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Agent-Assisted Story Crafting: Shaping Your Stories with AI

We’ve all been immersed in the hype surrounding Generative AI. It’s fast becoming a critical part of business operations, whether for sales, support, or analysis. As a techie, I’ve also been exploring how to leverage these tools to boost my productivity. Ideally, I’d use them for code generation and analysis. However, the effectiveness of these tools purely depends on the wielder.“A smartphone is only as smart as the user.”While everyone around me was getting accustomed to smart code completion tools,...

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Not another dogmatic process

We are doing Agile for past so many years/months but I think it does not work. Oh! is it? What do you mean by doing Agile? We follow the agile process. What is Agile Process? We do Standup Meeting, Sprint/Iteration Planning Meeting, Showcase Meeting What are the issues that you face? There is too much pressure to deliver every iteration/sprint. Every day we have to give status. Also, we have to get estimates from developers and with their estimates project can never be completed. Over the...

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Agile Business Analysis

Over the last decade or so I had opportunities to interact and work with a number of clients who had embarked on the agile journey but the project(s) were not delivering the desired results. Some of the common complaints were – We have completed development and are having some last minute testing – Even though the developers complete the iteration’s development in time, the customer takes a long time to accept the stories – The developers are not able to...

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