How to Organize a Backlog ?

Posted on Fri 20 May 2022 in misc

Product backlog is really the barebones of agile scrum teams. It help Product Owner to communicates vision to stakeholders, it help dev team to anticipate future needs and adjust design accordingly and it help Scrum master analyzing how team can be more efficient in its work.

Unfortunately, backlog is often …


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How to Write a User Story ?

Posted on Thu 05 May 2022 in misc

Ah, stories... Dev team complains they are not enough specified, Product Owner complains he doesn't have time to write them and Scrum Master complains they are a meaningless mess. But writing a story should not takes than much time and it doesn't have to be detailed to be clear. Let's …


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How to Evaluate a Refactoring Project ?

Posted on Mon 11 April 2022 in misc

I won't surprise anyone if I say evaluations are most of the time underestimated. Parkinson's law ensure estimations will never be overestimated anyway, but how can we better anticipate all the impediments that will delay our project ?

This article is taken from the "How (not) to refactor a kernel" conference …


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How to Justify Refactoring to Your Product Owner ?

Posted on Mon 07 March 2022 in misc

Refactoring is an intrinsic part of software development. However, it seems often difficult to justify a refactoring to the Product Owner. We will see in this article how to properly justify refactoring, when it is useful but also when refactoring is a lost of time.

Why refactoring is a good …


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