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Sandwiches
Introduction The idea behind this recipe collection is simple: I really miss good sandwiches in German golf clubs. Let me explain why by giving you a ranking of the most probable fast food you will find at German golf clubs: Nothing. Mars bars. Bad. Just fat & sugar. Peanuts. Not so bad. Jack Niklaus’ way […]
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Remarks on PRINCE2’s „Product-Based Planning“
What is Product-Based Planning? Product-Based Planning is a longtime hallmark of PRINCE2. It consists of four steps: Write a Project Product Description, which is a high-level description of customer expectations. Write a Product Breakdown Structure (PBS), which is a logical hierarchy of the project’s deliverables. Write a Product Description (PD), which is a concise but […]
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Agile Anti-Pattern: Strangle the roadmap by over-commitment
Pattern Description The backlog contains committed stories (features, capabilities, epics) for the next N iterations (sprints, program increments, etc.). Issue, Problem, Risk Any sprint (iteration) should have a clear sprint goal plus a set of user stories paying into this sprint goal. This is the commitment we need. When we now think about scaled agile […]
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Agile Anti-Pattern: What happens in a silo stays in a silo: no E2E view
Pattern Description A silo organization introduces SAFe in the IT silo. And gets the proof that SAFe is no good. Issue, Problem, Risk A silo organization starts to implement Agile in one or more silos, instead of breaking the barriers and thinking of the whole organization as one system. No end-to-end view, starting and ending […]
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Agile Anti-Pattern: The project manager is now called „Scrum Master“.
Pattern Description Scrum Master does (has to do) the one or more of the following: SM plans sprints, including management approval. One-on-one talks including setting personal goals (AKA: KPIs) for the next quarter. Short and mid-term task management („who does what?“). Task tracking, including task oriented timesheets. Commanding the user story implementation. Issue analysis and […]
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Agile Anti-Patterns
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Anti-Pattern: Water-Scrum
Pattern Description This anti-pattern could be also seen as „phased agile“: You set up a e.g. three months stage plan for stage 1, stage 2, etc. You expect every stage will deliver at the end of the stage, but the delivery method during the phase is somewhat agile. Sometimes you even see an „Analysis Stage“, […]
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Arduino photo resistor with potentiometer++
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research. Albert Einstein In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp_gSye8ke4 Dom’s MOBa channel the author wants to improve a simple photo resistor sketch/circuit by throwing a potentiometer into the game. His primary idea seems to be: with a separate potentiometer he could adjust the threshold of the circuit without […]
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SAFe Anti-Pattern: Hundreds of stories instead of dozens of business value focussed features.
Pattern Description You now have hundreds of stories, all copied from each of your team’s backlogs and have no clue what your forthcoming Product Increment (PI) is going to deliver. Your stories somehow have vague headlines, you declare as „features“, but they are rather what they are: headlines of groups of team stories. The team’s […]
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Model Railroad Block Detection with Arduino.
Here we show how to secure a certain track section by signaling in which direction a train enters the section is occupied and if the block has been left again. In pseudo code the system works like this: