Estimates, Deadlines and Agile Process

Every team has a process, and most of them hurt somewhere. These episodes cover estimates treated as commitments, deadlines handed down without you in the room, retrospectives where nothing changes, and the difference between process that helps and process for its own sake.

21 episodes of Soft Skills Engineering, the weekly advice podcast where Dave Smith and Jamison Dance answer software engineers' questions. Every episode is free, and each page below has the listener's question in full.

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Every episode about estimates, deadlines and process

  1. Episode 488: How do I survive in a culture of optics and jira slacker
  2. Episode 423: freedom from deadlines and Actual firefighting to software firefighting
  3. Episode 418: Should I "rest and vest" and how do I avoid 3-hour agile meetings?
  4. Episode 408: Terrible retrospectives and "hard to work with"
  5. Episode 405: Scaled agile pain and top-heavy team
  6. Episode 394: Scrum master, weapons master and minimum tenure to not look bad
  7. Episode 336: Roadmap roadkill and returning to office
  8. Episode 317: Process renegades and hiding my disgrunteledness
  9. Episode 299: Neophyte estimates and forced framework
  10. Episode 247: Estimates and hotdesking
  11. Episode 202: Can't stand up and new team, new me
  12. Episode 188: Drama overload and agile ouroboroses
  13. Episode 149: How to get my engineering career back on track and how to thrive in a heavy process environment
  14. Episode 134: Boredom vs Money and Agile vs Long-Term Schedules
  15. Episode 130 (rerun of episode 87): Stand up and fight! and Metrics
  16. Episode 122: Too Much Process and Negotiating Salaries with Multiple Companies
  17. Episode 114: Story Point Commitments and Measuring Productivity (Episode 79 Rerun)
  18. Episode 79: Story Point Misses and Measuring Productivity
  19. Episode 78: Endless Rewrites and Fake Deadlines
  20. Episode 51: Junior Scrum Master In Trouble And Jamison Has No Degree
  21. Episode 9: Deadlines and Titles

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