SPaMCAST 653 - Work Entry An Introduction, Product Backlog and Projects, Conversations and Essays

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work Entry: An Introduction, focuses on what work entry is and why it is the single most important part of determining whether a team is dependable, predictable, and even remotely agile. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will also have a visit from Jon M Quigley and his Alpha and Omega of Product Development. Jon and I discuss, wrestle, and chew on how the idea of a product backlog can exist in a project environment. </span></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have read or re-read</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2OVlj66"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley cover-to-cover if you don’t count the index at the back of the book (and I certainly do not). As a wrap-up, I briefly consider three points that came to mind during the re-read. If you have not bought your copy -- what are you waiting for?</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2OVlj66"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p>Next week we will start our re-read of <a href= "https://amzn.to/3vEjr55">Monotasking by Staffan Noteberg</a> by laying out an approach. I am contemplating combining the re-read with experience reports as I try to put the ideas in the book to use. More on that next week.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This Week’s Installment </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 16 -</span> <a href= "https://bit.ly/3p3tbU0"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Final Thoughts</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span> <a href="https://bit.ly/3p3tbU0v"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://bit.ly/3p3tbU0v</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Previous Installments</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 1:</span> <a href= "ht