Many agile and scrum teams start with basic practices to enable self-organizing teams to better deliver on business priorities. Practices include committing to what teams can get done in a sprint, ...

“How long will it take?” demand managers, clients, and executives. “It takes as long as it takes,” retort irritated engineers. They counter: “Give us an estimate!” And the engineers gather their wits, ...

Someone emailed me this question: "How do you estimate the reasonable growth rate for a company? I believe one way is to see the penetration rate of the product or service in each country and where ...

Story points help Agile teams estimate effort, but they’re far from perfect. Learn how story points work, why teams use them, ...

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Utility costs are always variable. You will want to plan for that in your monthly budget. Electricity tends to be the most expensive utility. There are a lot of factors that can drive up the price of ...