After a much troubled start related to scaling challenges and architecture complexity during the first deliverable, the project was turnaround and the second and third deliverables were portrayed fairly successful by both supplier and customer. From a practitioner's perspective, we found that novel ...
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” ~ Albert Einstein Are you a survivor of insane software development? Design-code-integrate-test-deploy. Maybe it’s time for a different approach. Test driven development takes some of the insanity out of t...
The use of the term “agile” originates in the Agile Manifesto, created by a group of programmers who were troubled by the flaws that occurred during the management of software development projects. From this meeting the Agile Manifesto was born, which describes four important values in the mo...
As far as the roles introduced by Scrum, you will have a hard time convincing me that there are times when a product owner role is not needed. I’d have to say that the #1 problem I see in “troubled” teams is the fact that they have no idea what to work on next. What do the...
The Effective Program Manager - Talking With Stakeholders About Your Troubled Program Your Stakeholders Will Have Many Questions Before Agreeing to a Change Bill Hoberecht -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ...
The main issue that troubled people was the conjunction of “interrupt” tickets with proactive implementation tickets. This kind of work is why lots of people like to say “Ops should use kanban.” However, I learned two things doing all this. The first is that for our team at least, th...
Unless you’re a serial house owner/mover, live on the doorstep of a new development or are troubled by a neighbour’s intended plans, chances are that you’ll have come into contact with the planning legal system pretty infrequently. Until 2013 that is, when the first permitted development...
Unless you’re a serial house owner/mover, live on the doorstep of a new development or are troubled by a neighbour’s intended plans, chances are that you’ll have come into contact with the planning legal system pretty infrequently. Until 2013 that is, when the first permitted development...
Dave Thomas, coined the concept of the Agile Tooth Fairy where Agile Coaches can swoop in and sprinkle magic dust on troubled projects to correct years of atrophy and neglect [3]. This is a myth: Agile is not a silver bullet. Methods & Tools * Winter 2011 * Page 3 Agile Culture Such...
While this inability to deliver anything of value troubled me deeply, it didn’t seem to be a problem for many of the scientists around me. They were more than happy to get paid to think deep thoughts and work to solve problems that no customer seemed to have. When I mentioned to other...