Agile Deadlines

hosted by Mark Knell

charting your progress
- burndown charts
- burnup
- Risk-adjusted burn-up charts, per Jim Shore
drumset metaphor
- useful to communicate the need to reduce scope to meet deadlines, counteracting the urge toward perfectionism
- the metaphor is, we're managing a band that is performing at the end of the iteration. As project manager, I will be far more pleased with a drumset that arrives on time missing the cymbals than a drumset that arrives whole but a day late.
use demos to increase awareness of quality, lateness
Agile rookies often have trouble subdividing their stories