The Core Philosophy: Process Over Platform This methodology is grounded in Kasparov’s Law: “A weak human + a machine + a better process beats a strong human + a machine + an inferior process.” ...
Section 1: The Agentic Transformation of Software Engineering The software engineering discipline is undergoing a significant paradigm shift. This transformation is moving development beyond AI as...
Why the Future of Engineering is in the Process. “Vibe Coding” describes an intuitive, exploratory, and rapid-fire, experimental approach to development, characterized by a high degree of trust in...
This definition is specific to Azure DevOps user stories. Other systems, such as Jira, will have a different set of fields with some overlaps. Some projects will be based on a customer’s tenant tha...
Story point ~effort days ~effort hours 0 1 0 - 0.5d 0 - 3h 2 0.5 - 1d 3 - 6h ...
What do we do in a sprint review/demo? First, we review with the customer and stakeholders the following: The goal(s) for the sprint Changes to the plan during the sprint What the team acc...
Current Team Practice Retrospective Board Setup This retrospective guidance uses the following ADO Retrospective board settings: Title: [project] Team: Sprint [N] Max Votes per User: 5 In...
Planning Planning work is notoriously difficult to do well. The less well understood the work, the less accurate the estimates will be. But some techniques work universally. Just as with breaking...
We use the Azure DevOps Agile toolset to plan our work for future sprints, to allow product owners and stakeholders to prioritize the work that we will do, and to communicate the work that we are c...
At the end of each sprint are some basic tasks that each of us need to do to close out a sprint. By end of day on the last day of the sprint, each team member should have closed out all work assig...