Podcasts - Agile for Humans 005
This is a generally great podcast, and when I have time I try to go back and listen to some of the older episodes. This particular one was rough -- it was still finding its feet, and the conversation was of a kind that sort of frustrates me in the agile community. There's a lot of discussions where it seems like people are asking for a definitive when the answer is always going to be contextual, or else they're arguing with a practice that doesn't actually exist. I generally find myself on the side of if something isn't useful, then stop doing it, or experiment with doing without it; if it's valuable to you, keep doing it. There's no sense in getting upset about how other people are doing it either way. Outside of the podcast, the estimate discussion is interesting to me because at my company, we have still not really hit our stride with the backlog grooming/refinement process, and estimation tends to be bound up in that. Our meetings tend to be a bit single-m