I don’t really remember when I first heard the phrase, “If it ain’t
broke, don’t fix it,” but I’ve used it plenty. Upon reflection I’ve...
2 replies - 4532 views - 03/18/11 by Jon Archer in News
Every developer was a newbie once. It doesn’t matter if you’re fresh
out of college or been developing software for 10 in this line of work
you get to...
0 replies - 2304 views - 03/17/11 by Dror Helper in News
As I said in my last blog entry
I’ve been looking at some of the academic research on task time
estimation. Long long ago, well 1979, two researchers,...
2 replies - 4423 views - 03/17/11 by Allan Kelly in News
I just realized now – a month after the conference – what it was that made Play4Agile a special, magical conference for me. Of course it’s the people,...
1 replies - 727 views - 03/16/11 by Michael Sahota in News
Earlier this week, Bob Marshall (@flowchainsensei) retweeted an article by Dan McCarthy on The Meaning of Respect, where he discussed respect as a value. I...
1 replies - 901 views - 03/16/11 by Michael Norton in News
I know. I have not been very kind to systems thinking in my recent “Complexity vs. Lean” presentation. But most systems thinkers are nice and smart...
3 replies - 5434 views - 03/15/11 by Jurgen Appelo in News
Agile has crossed the chasm and things are different over here. Really different. And not so good.
It feels like we have landed at Dieppe
(Canadian/British...
1 replies - 1446 views - 03/15/11 by Michael Sahota in News
The really hard part of changing an organization is
changing the people, and that's not something I can tell you how to do
in a blog post. However, I can...
2 replies - 788 views - 03/11/11 by Jared Richardson in News
Have you ever been on a team where your velocity suffered wild
variances? Maybe you ended up using a running average instead of
yesterday's weather?
Have...
1 replies - 2090 views - 03/11/11 by Michael Norton in News
Implementing a new methodology is a painful exercise. Lots change, lots break, and lots of so-called “colateral damage”. I have tried implementing new...
0 replies - 2644 views - 03/11/11 by Aslam Khan in Articles
On Monday night I presented “Why Quality Must Come First” at Skills Matter in London, the slides are now online (previous link to my website) and there is...
0 replies - 678 views - 03/10/11 by Allan Kelly in News
The title of this article is Eliminating duplication, and when you read that I think you will have guessed I would be talking about code. Of course I will...
0 replies - 3494 views - 03/10/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Service orientation is about agility. Without a resulting agility,
there is no point of doing SOA. Unfortunately, enterprise SOA
infrastructure initiatives...
0 replies - 1482 views - 03/09/11 by Francois Lascelles in News
In the beginning I used waterfall. There I said
it. Looking back at the mid to late 1990s, I can’t believe how I ever
got software developed at all! ;) I...
0 replies - 1278 views - 03/08/11 by Stephen Forte in News
You are already running a perfect business. Why should you need an Agile Management course?
So, you do software development “the Agile way”... You already...
0 replies - 937 views - 03/07/11 by Jurgen Appelo in News
