There’s been a lot of interesting conversation regarding the use of Kanban / Continuous Flow Development models and it’s something that I see a great deal of benefit in. I find myself struggling to understand whether it would be possible to start a team that hasn’t really used a process of any description before out [...]
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One Piece Flow, One Piece At a Time
Posted in agile, lean, scrum, work, tagged continuous flow, kanban, lean, one piece flow, scrum on 1 June, 2009 | 2 Comments »
An Agile Adoption Pattern: Wax On, Wax Off
Posted in agile, scrum, work, tagged agile, introduce, planning, poker, product manager, scrum, team on 27 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know I’ve said before that I don’t believe in an Agile Adoption initiative but humour me a little here…
As I rode home dodging in and out of traffic a couple of weeks ago, with the saddle still as low as it would go from the last descent that we did on the bike ride [...]
Agile: Like Fingernails On A Chalkboard
Posted in agile, scrum, work, tagged agile, culture, forming, governance, mistakes, model, norming, performing, project, scrum, storming on 16 May, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This is a post that I’ve had in my drafts for some time now, mainly because I’ve been trying to temper it’s message somewhat, having posted Agile Adoption – Just Say No the other day though I thought it was worth posting as a follow up as it relates to the last of the 3 [...]
Beware The Iterative Approach
Posted in agile, scrum, work, tagged agile, development, estimating, iterative on 27 December, 2007 | 1 Comment »
During one of our regular divisional management meetings recently, I was pleased to hear the announcement that all development projects will now be approached iteratively.
Strangely, even though this is the first real sign of an acceptance that we should be considering other methods for software delivery and given that I have been trying to promote [...]
The life of an Agile zealot
Posted in agile, scrum, work on 27 June, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Zealot isn’t a word that you (by that I mean me…) come across too much but I’ve encountered it twice recently. I’ve been speaking to a couple of the senior management team about how I can sell Agile throughout the organisation and both of them have commented on the language that I use, one going [...]
Size does matter
Posted in agile, scrum, work on 17 April, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just seen this post on Chip’s blog. He questions whether 30 days for a Sprint (which is what the Scrum process recommends) is perhaps too long, I’ve always thought so myself and in fact, if I remember rightly, Mike Cohn suggested 2 week Sprints on the Scrum Master Certification course that I attended.
When I [...]
Wax on, wax off
Posted in agile, scrum, work on 25 March, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been following a thread on the Yahoo Scrum Development group recently, in it a discussion has been taking place as to whether or not the name of Certified Scrum Master course is in fact a little misleading when in actual fact, the course that you attend neither ensures that you are a master nor [...]
What’s in a name?
Posted in agile, scrum, work on 3 March, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve done a lot of reading about the topic of Project Management using SCRUM and worked on a project before Christmas in which I used it as a framework. I would like to think that one of the successes of the project was that it has opened a few peoples eyes to the fact that [...]
Well, Well, Well
Posted in agile, scrum, skunkworks, work on 6 February, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is the first of a couple of posts that I have had in my drafts waiting to be completed for a while now, I apologise if they seem a little out of context.
I came across this blog post in which the author makes a couple of points that are similar to those that I [...]
Sprint 2: Lessons Learned
Posted in scrum, skunkworks, work on 7 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Following on from my post last week, here’s what I noted as lessons learned from Sprint 2.
Having a Proposition Up Front Will Aid the First Week of Planning (Pt. 2): I said last week that this would aid planning, I should have added requirements gathering too. I think the real lesson though is that I [...]
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