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Spring Cleaning Your Personal Backlog

As spring begins to plant its roots in the Northern Hemisphere, many people will begin an annual spring cleaning of their home.  All the clutter that has accumulated over the past 3, 6, 9, or even 12 months since the last cleaning is collected, assessed and then dealt with (either by moving stuff to a [...]

Mitigating the Risk of Story Point Drift

In many Agile projects requirements are not typically written in the form of a formal requirements document.  Instead, a collection of concise but effective means of describing what must be built called user stories are often used.  User stories describe the behaviour, performance, or interface of a system from a customer’s perspective.  A typical user [...]

Welcome to the Blog!

Welcome!  My name is Jarett Hailes, a business and technology consultant based in Edmonton, Canada.  I began my career in the technology field just over 10 years ago.  While I started in technology, I have worked in a variety of technical and business roles with organizations ranging from small start-up companies to large enterprises and [...]