Posts by Marcus Blankenship

When I was a Team Lead of 8 programmers, I envied them.  Not because their job was easy, but because I missed programming.  I missed writing software each day.  I missed the periods of deep focus, of technical problem solving, of putting the final touches on something I was proud of.  I missed delivering something…

Last week I wrote with thoughts on this question: How do you know a story is too big before it’s too late?  But I think there’s a deeper issue here we could explore.  A better question might be Why do stories get too big in the first place?   If we only limit the bigness, as…

Nathan and I were discussing the abuse of burn-down charts on Twitter. He asked an important question: How do you know a story is too big before it is too late? Since this was twitter, I’ll expand the question a bit: How do you know a story is too big to finish before the end…