Question 1: If someone with no agile knowledge asked you where to start in learning about agile (in order to get a job in our industry), what one recommendation would you give them? Question 2: If someone with a basic knowledge and some experience of agile asked you how to… Read More »Advice for newbies
Story, Epic or even Saga, what is the difference? David Lowe’s post from last year gives a good description of each. However, in my opinion, there is not much difference. A story, epic or saga all narrate the type of user, the need of the user, and the value returned… Read More »Don’t forget to add in the conversation
What trait do you despise the most? A poll on ranker.com puts the worst characteristics as selfishness, arrogance, meanness, self-centredness and dishonesty. My vote goes to laziness (which was 33rd in the ranker list). Over the last few years I’ve met lots of people who have made an effort to improve… Read More »Why I won’t help Bob
The team that I am currently working with is approaching the end of the sprint. After the last stand up, conversation turned to taking on more product backlog items before the sprint finishes, as the team felt like they had some spare time, or, slack. Most of the team felt strongly… Read More »Are we slacking enough?
Probabilistic forecasting is an alternative to an estimates based approach. Rather than asking your teams to break down a lot of work up front, and then estimate it, we can use past data generated by the team from the work they’ve already done to extrapolate a forecast of what may happen… Read More »Probabilistic Forecasting
“Don’t assume your customers think like you” “Don’t assume your customers think like you” is my number one piece of advice for anyone starting a new business. It was one of the critical errors I made in 2004 that resulted in my first start-up failing and still holds true today.… Read More »When words go bad
After reading James’ last post, Responding to Change – A Decorator’s Story, I began thinking a bit more in general about how people consider software development. In a lot of places where I have worked, software has always been delivered in projects. These projects, even ones that have been called… Read More »Project v Product
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo … survives by bending with the wind.” ~ Bruce Lee Pedro stood at the front of the room and told a story about how, when struggling with a difficult class, he’d received advice to “be like bamboo” from… Read More »Be like bamboo
This weekend I set myself the objective of decorating my bathroom. I enlisted some help, took 2 days off and set about planning the work. The plan consisted of several goals: take the old tiles off the wall, remove the old shower, plaster where necessary, attach the new shower, tile… Read More »Responding to Change – A Decorator’s Story
I was recently involved in a release planning discussion where someone referred to an action that needed to be “handed over to the DevOps” team. I was slightly confused by what this meant. When I questioned this, I was told that what was meant by DevOps in this instance was… Read More »DevOps
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