The principles behind the agile manifesto are clear in their message on collaboration: “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.” Yet, there are still companies out there where the visions of the development teams and business teams do not align. They either have different targets or they simply haven’t taken… Read More »Alignment a.k.a Collaboration
In traditional software development environments, testing may have been something that was outsourced. One group of people wrote the code and handed it off to a different team for testing. More recently, as the Principles of Agile were created and the Scrum framework in particular was popularised, cross functional teams… Read More »Testing is an activity, not a role
To most of us, the problems with fixing cost, scope and time are obvious. How do we know we can deliver all of the scope, in the time we’ve been given, with the people we have to do it? The short answer, is that in most cases you can’t especially… Read More »Fixed Everything Projects
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are supposed to make our lives easier. They provide a one stop shop where we can author and store requirements, manage bugs or issues, manage projects and even manage the build and release of software. Some of them even act as Source Code Management tools… Read More »Do ALM Tools Encourage Communication Waste?
Or is it? It’s not so much the act of estimation that’s the issue. Relative sizing can be a useful tool to help teams gain a shared understanding of a work item, and as a barometer for keeping batch size small. It’s what we do with those numbers afterwards that… Read More »To estimate, or not to estimate: That is the question.
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