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Agile Adjustments: a WordCount Story

January 5, 2012

I originally wrote this for the AYE website in 2007. It’s no longer published there so I’m posting it here. Despite itching to tweak some words and add a better conclusion, I resisted the temptation to edit it other than formatting it for this blog. It’s as I wrote it in 2007. (Despite being 4 […]

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WordCount: a Happy Surprise

September 23, 2010

Sometimes teams that run through my WordCount simulation succeed wildly beyond anyone’s expectations. They go beyond the limits of the simulation, achieving a level of effectiveness and efficiency that’s off the charts. I’m always delighted by such occurrences. One such happy surprise occurred at a private, onsite offering. Before running the simulation, one of the […]

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Beware the Hero

December 2, 2008

The team in the WordCount simulation was floundering. We were midway through the third round and it looked to me like the team wasn’t even close to shipping. Most teams are able to produce a basic system that I’ll accept in my role as the Customer in the third round, or early in the fourth. […]

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The WordCount Simulation

November 13, 2008

I’ve mentioned my WordCount simulation here before, and some folks have expressed curiosity about it. I started writing a blog post about it, and quickly realized that it would take a whole lot of blog posts to tell all the stories I want to tell. So I’ll start by explaining the simulation in more detail, […]

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