Posts by Rob Borges

Capacity rarely survives contact with a real sprint. Here’s how to track capacity risk against a committed release date in Jira, in days, in real time.

Detail-chasing is visible; release risk stays invisible until the date slips. Here’s how to make release risk management visible, dated, and attributable in Jira.

A moving forecast date isn’t a plan. Probabilistic release planning means committing to a target and confidence, baselining scope, and closing the loop.

Management by exception lets you stop watching the whole board. Set the tolerance once, review only what threatens the release, and delegate quality to systems.

Key Takeaways A SAFe fist of five is an honest snapshot of confidence cast once at PI Planning, accurate for...

Key Takeaways Scope creep rarely arrives as one dramatic decision; it erodes a release a few points at a time...

A real release plan needs three things: an estimated backlog, real velocity, and agreed conditions of satisfaction. Here’s what breaks when one is missing.

Key Takeaways The dependency that blows up a release is almost never the one you flagged; the dangerous one looked...