Hi, I'm Niall Bunting

The proverbial shit umbrella is explained described as protecting the team from the forces in management above the team. What about the other direction?

I recommend deleting any estimates on tickets before refinement. The most common cases of this happening are old tickets that were previously refined and new tickets with an informal estimate.

Before the 70’s there were only a couple of ways to contact someone, the main two being either physically (post or just turning up at their house) and the landline. In the digital years the options seem to be endless, with major groups being: social networks, communication apps and even the workplace has instant messaging.

Today I launched a small startup called TempPoint. Inspired by what I know about the book ‘$100 dollar startup’ (it’s in my “to read” list after reading this review), I have decided releasing a product a go.

This is the fourth part of this series; the first post is here.

I found a relic, a paper Tate and Lyle coffee bag under a floorboard. That paper bag is older than me, it made me sit down and think about life for a few moments. Finding a paper bag is unlikely in the digital world as resources only a few years old have a habit of disappearing.

For those who don’t know, Confluence is a essentially a private wiki, with areas for different projects and other shared areas. It’s a commonly used tool but doesn’t seem effective at its job, the sharing of information.

The idea of just in time (JIT) comes from manufacturing, it meant changing processes so a part would only be manufactured when it was needed, reducing stock that isn’t needed. Can we take these lean ideas of waste reduction and apply them to knowledge?

One of my previous teams would give a five-finger confidence rating after each planning session to see how each team member felt the plan. Like most times before, the median was a 4. After all we had brought in the same number of stories as the velocity, all sounds good right?

Many of the articles that were read to research this topic, went into the minute details of how a NPN and PNP transistor is born (and back) but didn’t seem to answer my question. Why should I use one and not the other?

This is the third part of this series; the first post is here.

Two similar words with different meanings, comprising of a subtle but important difference.

I used to play games in my teens, I have clocked up nearly a 1000 hours on Garry’s Mod, 750 hours on Team Fortress 2 and countless hours on Minecraft. Over a short period I left the gamer life, let’s explore that why I did that.

Many software teams track their velocity, use this handy calculator to discover your chances of delivering a certain amount of story points.

Most of us heard quote “A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic”. Let’s see if we can change that.