December 2020

A selection of posts I wrote and discussions I participated in during December 2020:

• Identifying if an organization has a culture consistent with Agile Software Development.

• Considering discovery, development, and operations in Agile Software Development.

• Tracking changing requirements over a long period of time in Agile Software Development.

• Dealing with common dependencies when estimating work.

• Splitting large User Stories into "analyze" and "develop" work.

• Creating a checklist for Sprint Planning activities.

• Test-Driven Development seeming to be wasteful.

• Performing code reviews in online diffing tools.

• QA automation in modern software development.

• Product Owner approval as part of a Definition of Done.

• People from outside a Scrum Team attending the team's events.

• Vetting all updates to open-source dependencies.

• Demonstrating a productive, efficient Scrum team.

• The career path for a Scrum Master.

• Fitting the Business Analyst role in the Scrum framework.

• Technical leaders and managers explaining rules and policies to junior developers.