The Planning Game

Clean Code, Episode 47

Timing:

• 00:00-00:50 opening
• 00:50-02:50 episode introduction
• 02:50-11:15 black hole evaporation rates
• 11:15-15:15 the iron cross
  • What are the four attributes of a software project?
  • What does the “iron cross of project management” say about the relation between those dimensions?
• 15:15-22:20 velocity
  • The velocity chart
  • The burndown chart
  • Relation between velocity chart and burndown chart
  • Agile is about getting bad news out early enough for managers to manage the project
  • We do agile to measure how fast we go
• 22:20-37:40 iterations
  • In software development, dates are frozen but features are always changing
  • Iteration zero: Initial exploration, analysis and design
  • Iterations have fixed time
  • Iterations never fail
  • Iterations are there to produce data
• 37:40-46:40 scope management
  • Schedule unlikely to change, though possible to change early on
  • New people initially slow down the productivity
  • Quality of code should not be sacrificed (but can adjust quality of ui/features)
  • Scope is the most amenable to change
• 46:40-50:15 the circle of life
  • Individual disciplines: Pairing, TDD, Refactoring, Simple Design
  • Technical Team disciplines: Continuous Integration, Collective Ownership, Sustainable Pace, Metaphor
  • Whole Team disciplines: Whole Team, Planning Game, Small Releases, Acceptance/Client Tests
• 50:15-53:15 summary/ending credits