SPaMCAST 565 - Three Ways Ways To Mess Up Sprint Goals, Product Roadmaps, Essays and Discussions

SPaMCAST 565 tackles three ways to mess up sprint goals. Sprint goals are a statement of the value that teams strive to deliver.  It is possible to complete all of the stories or work items only to realize that the team has lost sight of the goal. Alternately, it is possible to meet the goal and not complete all of the stories. 

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Rounding out the cast, we have a visit from Jon M Quigley with an installment of The Alpha and Omega of Product Development.  Jon talks about his two new books and product roadmaps.

Re-Read Saturday News

This week in our re-read of Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman opens with a discussion of a number of studies that show that professional predictions are far less accurate than simple algorithmic predictions.

Remember, if you do not have a favorite, dog-eared copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow, please buy a copy.  Using the links in this blog entry helps support the blog and its alter-ego, The Software Process and Measurement Cast. Buy a copy on Amazon,  It’s time to get reading!  

 The installments:

Week 1: Logistics and Introduction – http://bit.ly/2UL4D6h

Week 2: The Characters Of The Story – http://bit.ly/2PwItyX

Week 3: Attention and Effort – http://bit.ly/2H45x5A

Week 4: The Lazy Controller – http://bit.ly/2LE3MQQ

Week 5: The Associative Machine – http://bit.ly/2JQgp8I

Week 6: Cognitive Ease – http://bit.ly/2VTuqVu

Week 7: Norms, Surprises, and Causes – http://bit.ly/2Molok2

Week 8: A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions - http://bit.ly/2XOjOcx 

Week 9: How Judgement Happens and Answering An Easier Question - http://bit.ly/2XBPaX3 

Week 10:  Law of Small Numbers - http://bit.ly/2JcjxtI 

Week 11: Anchors - http://bit.ly/30iMgUu 

Week 12: The Science of Availability - http://bit.ly/30tW6TN 

Week 13: Availability, Emotion, and Risk - http://bit.ly/2GmOkTT 

Week 14: Tom W’s Speciality - http://bit.ly/2YxKSA8 

Week 15: Linda: Less Is More - http://bit.ly/2T3EgnV 

Week 16: Causes Trump Statistics - http://bit.ly/2OTpAta 

Week 17: Regression To The Mean - http://bit.ly/2ZdwCgu 

Week 18: Taming Intuitive Predictions — http://bit.ly/2kAHClJ  

Week 19: The Illusion of Understanding - http://bit.ly/2lK954p  

Week 20: The Illusion of Validity -   http://bit.ly/2mfyrYh 

Week 21: Intuitions vs Formulas - http://bit.ly/2kx7kri 

 

Next SPaMCAST

SPaMCAST 566 will feature our interview with Christopher Gerg. Our conversation covered the role of the CISO in today’s organization, security in software development, and cybersecurity in the real world.