Written by Arin Sime | Jun 24, 2011 | Agile
Have you ever been asked for a rough estimate, and then later regretted giving a “rough” estimate because the customer tried to hold you to it? A familiar story This week I spoke with an agile coaching colleague of mine, and he relayed a story that rang...
Written by Arin Sime | Jun 8, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
Have you ever faced prioritizing a long list of stories or requirements and thought, “This is going to take forever!” I have, and so I was thrilled to learn a technique at XP2011 that helps with this dilemma. I had a chance last week to apply “Silent...
Written by Arin Sime | May 11, 2011 | Agile
Thanks to those attending my lightning talk today at XP2011 on range estimation! I’m enjoying Madrid Spain very much and the conference has been very good so far. Here are my slides from today’s talk in PDF and Powerpoint formats. In the coming weeks I...
Written by Arin Sime | Apr 30, 2011 | Agile, Events
On Wednesday September 28th, I’ll be speaking at the Verify/ATI Conference 2011 in Arlington Virginia at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. According to the recently published schedule at the VerifyATI website, I’m in the 2:15-3:15 time slot. I’ll be leading a...
Written by Arin Sime | Apr 20, 2011 | Agile, Events, User Group Reports
As mentioned in a previous post, we played a game last night at AgileCville’s meeting last night that was fun and definitely kept the conversation going. We had some very good discussions around a number of agile topics, and so that itself is the strongest...
Written by Arin Sime | Apr 18, 2011 | Agile, Events
Let’s play an agile game! Tomorrow will be the next Agile Cville meeting at OpenSpace in Charlottesville, from 6-8pm. The topic this month is “Agile Failure Patterns”, and I agreed to kick off the discussion. Rather than start off the meeting with...
