Work Item Age

During the product development, some people often seek for the perfect solution. “How do you ensure the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) is unique so the system won’t crash?” A developer asked me recently during a discussion on a RESTful API. “We have to fine-tune the UX,” said a developer from another product team, “I don’t feel comfortable delivering this UI to the users.” He then spent plenty of time explaining his imagination to build the perfect UI. ...

Last month, I wrote a blog post about why I have refrained from using Story Points and capacity estimation in my team since day one. I have been delving deeper into Kanban and immersing myself in the materials, and I have started implementing it. After introducing Kanban and Flow Metrics to my team, I received a lot of questions and feedback from them. Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, pull-based system. There may be various ways to define value, including consideration of the needs of the customer, the end-user, the organization, and the environment, for example. ...