XPDAY5: Dead Fish and Cargo Overboard

I think the most memorable phrases that come out of XPDAY05 will be those used by Tim Lister in his keynote speech.

First, Dead Fish of Failure describes the festering 'smell' those projects have which are setup to fail from the beginning.

Second, imagine your project is a cruise liner or cargo freighter. When it set sail it contained lots of cargo or user stories. As the cruise progresses the act of descoping user stories from a sprint or iteration is like throwing cargo overboard. I wonder how many projects have reached their destination with empty holds?


Tags: agile, xpday5

posted by Simon Baker @ permalink
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