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Don't Overload the Sprint
- Overloading a Scrum team with extra work is a bad idea.
- Deliberately planning more work than the team can realistically deliver leads to several negative consequences.
- These consequences include loss of focus, lower quality of work, burnout, inconsistent predictability, increased work in progress, and undermined continuous improvement.
- Supporting the team in maintaining a sustainable pace and allowing them to focus leads to better results, trust-building, and continuous improvement.
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That's Not the Point of Points
- In Scrum methodology, story points are used to size work tasks.
- Individual point assignments are not meant to judge productivity or talent.
- Points help in planning and forecasting the team's work capacity.
- The purpose of points is not to compare developers or for performance reviews.
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From Chaos to Confidence: Why I Built the AI Engagement Accelerator Kit
- The AI Engagement Accelerator Kit is an open-source playbook for confidently planning, building, and deploying Generative AI projects.
- It offers phase-by-phase guides, notebooks, templates, and streamlit apps for various aspects of AI development.
- The kit is designed for real teams, providing workflows and tools for PMs, AI architects, ML engineers, and stakeholders.
- The kit aims to help GenAI projects align with stakeholders, evaluate use cases, and ship faster while ensuring responsible development.
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From Good to Great: Essential Qualities of an Exceptional Product Owner
- An exceptional Product Owner understands customer pain points and business needs.
- They use data, feedback, and research to inform product decisions and bring value.
- An exceptional Product Owner bridges business stakeholders and the development team.
- They prioritize effectively, focusing on core functionality and key customer needs.
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Scrum in Action
- The product vision is a concise statement that describes the desired outcome of the product.
- Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and takes inputs from customers.
- The Scrum team consists of the Scrum Master and the Development team, each with specific responsibilities.
- Executing sprints is a key step in the Scrum framework, involving working on the sprint backlog to achieve the sprint goal.
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Scrum Team 3D Reality Model: Path to Agile Product-Oriented Organisation
- Less than half of Agile practitioners report success at scale, highlighting the need to rethink Scrum implementation for Agile Product-Oriented Organizations.
- Introducing the 3D Reality Model for Scrum Teams, aiming to guide organizations towards becoming Agile Product-Oriented.
- 44% of agile practitioners find enterprise Agile somewhat successful for their organizations, indicating room for improvement.
- The model emphasizes the importance of a reference point for Scrum Teams in medium to large organizations to thrive effectively.
- Scrum teams need to align with organizational realities, which can be complex and challenging to navigate.
- The 3D Reality Model incorporates three dimensions - Portfolio (Height), E2E Value Flow (Width), and Cross-Org Collaboration (Depth).
- Implementing Kanban within the model can enhance transparency, ownership, and agility for organizations moving towards a product-oriented structure.
- Scrum Teams are positioned at the core of the model, linking with business objectives and operational realities, supported by Kanban-driven dimensions.
- Organizations are encouraged to evolve toward product-oriented structures by placing Scrum Teams at the center, backed by Kanban systems for communication and workflow management.
- The 3D Reality Model provides a framework for organizations to shift towards Agile Product-Oriented Operations, promoting transparency and agility at scale.
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Dew Drop – April 14, 2025 (#4403)
- Various articles cover topics such as choosing a framework for building native apps on Windows with .NET, key features of .NET Aspire 9.2, hosting remote MCP servers in Azure Container Apps, and understanding MCP and its significance.
- Web and Cloud Development articles discuss topics like showing Toast and swapping content with HTMX, implementing Vertical Slice Architecture in .NET, creating a custom 404 page in Blazor Web Apps, and introducing Spring Cloud Azure Starter Key Vault JCA.
- Visual Studio & .NET insights include using a private NuGet feed for building and restoring .NET apps for Docker deployment, exploring the reasons for using Rust as a C# developer, and discussing issues related to UI thread hanging in a kernel call.
- AI-related articles talk about VS Code's competition with Cursor & Windsurf, evaluation of agentic AI systems, understanding Vector Search, and discussions on GenAIScript and Copilot Agent mode.
- Design, Methodology & Testing articles touch on topics such as the comparison between the Modern Coder and Vibe Code, tips for introverted engineering managers, creating content, and focusing on UX design for agents.
- Mobile, IoT & Game Development articles provide insights into setting up a Raspberry Pi 500 home recording studio and a command for keeping phones awake while plugged in.
- Screencasts and Videos cover topics ranging from writing high-performance C# and .NET code to creating SaaS applications using Claude Code and 3.7 Sonnet, along with various podcasts on AI, data engineering, and leadership.
- Lastly, various community event highlights, database insights, updates on Microsoft Copilot, PowerShell compatibility issues with Azure Runbooks, Apple Maps launching on the web, and announcements related to Windows 11 Insider Preview builds are also discussed across the articles.
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Richard Brenner: Skipping the Vision, How Not to Introduce Kanban
- Richard Brenner shares an important learning experience from introducing Kanban to teams using a top-down approach.
- Without clearly articulating why the change was needed, team members questioned what they were doing wrong that necessitated change.
- Richard emphasizes the importance of first understanding the problem before applying Scrum or Kanban and defining what success looks like.
- Thorough contracting with client organizations is recommended to assess their current state and understand the reasons for change.
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The Product Owner: Balancing Business Needs and Development Realities in Scrum
- The Product Owner champions the product, owning the overall product strategy and ensuring the development team’s work directly contributes to achieving overarching business goals.
- The Product Backlog serves as the single source of truth for all work required on the product. The Product Owner is responsible for managing the Product Backlog.
- The Product Owner acts as the primary liaison between the development team and all stakeholders, including customers, executives, sales and marketing teams, and support teams.
- The Product Owner is the essential voice of both the customer and the business within the Scrum Team, ensuring that the development team focuses on building the right product, in the right way, and ultimately delivers maximum value.
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Nobody can agree on how to estimate story points, so here’s my approach.
- Points in Agile are intended to estimate the effort required to complete a task and are subjective.
- The idea of ditching story points completely is attractive, but it's better to update the way we estimate tasks.
- Group tasks by similarity and determine the most expensive one to use as a reference.
- Estimate tasks based on how easier they are compared to the reference task, using a fibonacci approach.
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From Feature Factory to Purpose-Driven Development: Why Anticipated Outcomes Are Non-Negotiable
- A senior architect dismissed the practice of defining expected outcomes for a new project as 'stupid', reflecting resistance and lack of alignment in a transforming organization.
- Purpose-Driven Development (PDD) focuses on solving the right problems with clear goals and intentions, emphasizing understanding the 'why' behind every initiative.
- The practice of including 'Anticipated Outcome' for each Epic or Initiative creates focus, intention, and ties daily work to meaningful goals.
- Product Managers and Technical Leaders may initially feel frustration when asked to define anticipated outcomes due to lack of early involvement or challenges in translating technical needs into business value.
- Documenting the anticipated outcome helps offer clarity, direction, and ensures strategic moves are made, reducing the risk of working on tasks that may not matter.
- The Feature Factory Ratio metric measures the balance between value-driven work and the risk of operating like a 'feature factory', highlighting the importance of connecting work to value.
- Superficial alignment in digital transformation poses a challenge as it impedes true transformation and creates cultural drag within organizations.
- Transformation is viewed as a leadership posture rather than a checkbox, emphasizing the importance of building belief and alignment in mindset and actions for successful modern software leadership.
- Realizing the challenges in transformation journeys, adapting leadership approaches, meeting teams where they are, and guiding them towards outcome-driven practices is essential for progress.
- Software delivery with a clear purpose is identified as more effective, empowering, and valuable for the business, customers, and the teams involved, highlighting the importance of clarity as a leadership responsibility.
- The practice asserts that the true problem lies upstream if teams are unaware of the purpose behind their work, emphasizing the role of leadership in fostering clarity and alignment.
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Agile is Broken: Here’s How It’s Destroying Engineering Teams
- Daily standups, sprint planning, and other Agile ceremonies have become box-checking exercises, leading to meeting fatigue and decreased productivity.
- Agile tools and practices have turned into surveillance systems, micromanaging developers and creating a culture of fear instead of trust.
- The focus on pushing something "shippable" every two weeks leads to short-term thinking and accumulating technical debt.
- Strict adherence to process trumps developer input, hindering collaboration and team morale.
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Food for Agile Thought #488: Product vs Engineering, Reflexive AI Usage, Psychological Safety and…
- Tobi Lütke calls for reflexive AI usage at Shopify, positioning it as a creative and productivity multiplier.
- Jeremy Brown offers human-centered principles for product–engineering ownership to avoid RACI wars.
- The 2025 AI Index Report reveals explosive AI progress and investment, but highlights gaps in regulation, education, and reasoning performance.
- Wes Kao shares actionable tactics for clearer, more persuasive communication, especially when managing up or handling objections.
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Dew Drop – April 11, 2025 (#4402)
- .NET 10 Preview 3 and .NET MAUI updates are available, along with a new Docker Extension for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 for shaping the future of development.
- Articles cover topics like optimizing image performance in Next.js, building a Token Visualizer in .NET, and ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 10 Preview 3.
- Updates on .NET MAUI, Windows UWP Maps Control deprecation, and programming MS Word DOCX documents with .NET C# on Linux are highlighted.
- AI-related topics include Azure Copilot troubleshooting, Anthropic's C# SDK for MCP Integration, and using AI in software testing.
- Design and methodology articles discuss code quality in GitHub, security for developers, and career path navigation.
- Mobile, IoT, and game development content feature insights on Xbox's South of Midnight and screencasts on GitHub Copilot and Azure SQL Database.
- Podcasts cover AI data infrastructure, Django deploy, durable execution, fact-checking AI, UX for business, and more.
- Events like the MVP Summit 2025, Azure SQL Server updates, and the 50th-anniversary Surface Laptop release by Microsoft are also highlighted.
- Database insights, SharePoint updates, miscellaneous tech news, and additional link collections are included in this extensive compilation.
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Ultimate Guide to Writing a High-Quality User Story
- A software engineer shares the importance of project management skills and user stories in Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Learning about project management, Agile, and Scrum could have saved the author's projects in Japan.
- User stories are effective in clarifying goals, eliminating misunderstandings, and improving project performance.
- The article explains how to write a high-quality user story and promises significant performance improvement.
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