I learned about agile today. Agile can be adopted by several approaches, each requiring a different company mindset and support. It’s very true. You can’t just adopt a methodology and expect magic to happen. To be able to move fast, yeah, some basic methodology needs to be adopted. But that’s not enough. Technical expertise and practices have be adopted as well. Decision making process has to be streamlined. Anything else? I do have to re-read the excellent article by James shore. Well worth it.
I also learned about story points. I can use 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 (fibonnaci) or a simple, 1, 2, 4, 8. Key point here is that a story should be compleatable in a sprint. If it can’t, it should be split, and perhaps assigned 13, 20, 40, 100 as the number. Pretty good suggestions!