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How long do you spend talking about your burndown chart during your sprint retrospectives? Burndown charts tell you so much more than if you finished all the work in the sprint or not. From these charts, you can learn:
When I was a backend team lead, I would sometimes jump in and help during sprints by writing code or diving into operations. Occasionally I would even be the best person for the job because I had domain knowledge for that service or sub-system.
When I started my development career, I thought I was hired to write feature code. What else is there to building a product? I only now realize how wrong I was.
Over the last two articles (SaaS War Games - Part 1 and SaaS War Games - Part 2), we dove into the value of War Games. In this article, the rubber meets the road on how to run one.
This article builds on SaaS War Games - Part 1, so I recommend reading that article before diving into this.
It’s 3 AM and your phone is ringing. There’s only one number you let ring through your Do Not Disturb settings. You open one eye and look at the first of 12 on-call notifications.