On a large-scale agile project/program with multiple Scrum teams working toward the same overall goal, having user stories sized in a way that makes it easier to re-assign them from one Scrum team to another provides provides a planning and execution advantage when balancing work across teams to optimize delivery dates. Before adopting a common story points scale, there are a couple … Continue reading Normalizing Story Points Across Teams
Month: July 2013
Database Refactorings on Large-Scale Projects
It was six weeks before the big deployment, and tensions were running high across the five feature teams on the project. Just as a team thought they were approaching the finish line, a slew of big and small database refactorings stalled progress. Tables were re-structured. Columns were added or renamed. One team’s tech lead sent … Continue reading Database Refactorings on Large-Scale Projects
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