Comments on: New year, new job http://brian.olore.net/wp/2010/01/new-year-new-job/ Less of a story, more of a brain dump Mon, 03 May 2010 03:30:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: SeanC http://brian.olore.net/wp/2010/01/new-year-new-job/comment-page-1/#comment-660 SeanC Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:29:51 +0000 http://brian.olore.net/?p=98#comment-660 Good luck with the now job! Good luck with the now job!

]]> By: Robi http://brian.olore.net/wp/2010/01/new-year-new-job/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Robi Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:51:56 +0000 http://brian.olore.net/?p=98#comment-659 Glad you're finding roots. Will be interesting to see how the internal apps and infrastructures differ from the behemoth that IBM is. Sometime it's good to see a different view and get a bit of a reset to get things moving along faster and better :) Glad you’re finding roots. Will be interesting to see how the internal apps and infrastructures differ from the behemoth that IBM is. Sometime it’s good to see a different view and get a bit of a reset to get things moving along faster and better :)

]]> By: Brian http://brian.olore.net/wp/2010/01/new-year-new-job/comment-page-1/#comment-658 Brian Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:07:59 +0000 http://brian.olore.net/?p=98#comment-658 Thanks Wolf. I am not up on all the sizing estimate strategies, in fact I have to go look up HML after this. I just participated in my first planning poker meeting on Friday. It was interesting, especially considering I don't know the details of the system. It was agreed that it was OK because my input would be tempered by others playing. It was pretty cool. I came in with mostly higher estimates, and even a few times was able to convince the others to talk about it more and they agreed to increase their estimates. Anyway, we'll see how it turns out. Since it was initial sizings, they are expected to be off, but it was useful to get some kind of base level. Thanks Wolf. I am not up on all the sizing estimate strategies, in fact I have to go look up HML after this. I just participated in my first planning poker meeting on Friday. It was interesting, especially considering I don’t know the details of the system. It was agreed that it was OK because my input would be tempered by others playing. It was pretty cool. I came in with mostly higher estimates, and even a few times was able to convince the others to talk about it more and they agreed to increase their estimates.

Anyway, we’ll see how it turns out. Since it was initial sizings, they are expected to be off, but it was useful to get some kind of base level.

]]> By: Wolf http://brian.olore.net/wp/2010/01/new-year-new-job/comment-page-1/#comment-656 Wolf Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:17:48 +0000 http://brian.olore.net/?p=98#comment-656 Hey Brian. Good to hear you're making a new nest. In my experience, the concepts of agile are great but some of the semantics and rigid aspects (burndown, etc) not so much. Here's a little post on planning poker - http://wolfc.posterous.com/planning-poker-basics - it's good exercise in some ways but not as efficient as HML sizing estimates in the early stages. Good luck man. Hey Brian. Good to hear you’re making a new nest. In my experience, the concepts of agile are great but some of the semantics and rigid aspects (burndown, etc) not so much. Here’s a little post on planning poker – http://wolfc.posterous.com/planning-poker-basics – it’s good exercise in some ways but not as efficient as HML sizing estimates in the early stages. Good luck man.

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