#planning (18 links)
- Story Points Revisited ronjeffries.com
The focus on more gets in the way of increasing value. Increasing pressure to do more almost inevitably has a bad result: the team tries to go faster, and wind up skimping on code quality and on tests. They soon begin shipping more defects, slowing down because of the increased rework to fix the defects, and slowing down even more because the code quality rapidly declines. Things get worse and worse, pressure increases, and it becomes a race to disaster.
The depressing reality of what has happened here becomes all the more stark when you look across the river. Right opposite the power station stands Churchill Gardens, a vast postwar housing estate designed by distinguished architects Powell and Moya, built to house 5,000 people across a 12-hectare site, with several blocks now listed and around half still council-owned. Built by Westminster City Council, it was designed to accommodate a balanced cross-section of society, with the highest standards of housing for all – and not a segregated entrance in sight.
- How to really make something slideshare.net
"...that people actually want". Rapid app/product development ideas from MBM.
Rather nice.
- words to strategize by / what consumes me, bud caddell whatconsumesme.com
Basically, if your idea ends with “and then we drive traffic to it,” you’ve failed.
"Bring tech-heads into creative conversations early to color communication ideas with what's possible in web development." But don't call them tech-heads.
- No Man’s Blog - This is how I measure social stuff no-mans-blog.com
Reach, engagement, influence, sentiment.
- Digital Media isn't Mass Media for Cheap slideshare.net
In 2009, I challenge you to stop using the web as just another distribution platform.
- Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel on Software joelonsoftware.com
Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules.
- russell davies: applied green russelldavies.typepad.com
Can we encourage and direct desire in a way that satisfies people's desire to consume (and therefore allows businesses to charge them money for something and keep the wheels of capitalism turning) without creating endless torrents of new stuff.
- Northern Planner: How to find a strategy joymachine.typepad.com
This isn't specifically about brand strategy or campaign strategy, or any other task. It's about how to go about getting a good idea for whatever you've been tasked to do.
- Planix—Guess Less, Work More planixonline.com
Planix is a hosted application that enables project teams to consistently and accurately estimate the resources, scheduling and cost of their software development projects.
- plannersphere plannersphere.pbwiki.com
We should try and make it a decent resource for planners and brand-thinkers around the world.