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One measure we may want to include in our suite of metrics could be the responsiveness of the development organization.

I don't use story points for sprint planning because story points are a useful long-term measure. They are not useful in the short-term.

While I want teams to come to agreement, I don't care how heartfelt the agreement is.

When we estimate it is important that we not mix knowledge-before-the-fact with knowledge-after-the-fact.

Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) are definitely very aligned. In fact, if you walked in on a team doing one of these processes you might have hard time quickly deciding whether you had walked in on a Scrum team or an XP team. The differences are often quite subtle, but they are important.

I eventually came to the realization that the team would always be smarter than me.

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