Sunday, March 29, 2009

Burn-down charts: The Good, Bad, advice and alternatives

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I’ve never completely accepted burn-down charts. I know they are a staple of Agile development and I’ve even used them myself but I’ve neve...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

BCS Kingston & Croydon - Tuesday 24th

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Back in February the snow came down and the evening talk I was due to give to BCS Kingston and Croydon was postponed. (The snow closed King...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

10 things to know about Kanban software development

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1) Kanban software development originated by David Anderson . Many of the practices and heuristics have been seen on other Agile teams befo...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

We're all Agile now, next stop Operational Excellence

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In their keynote at XP Day last December Dan Jones and Marc Baker talked a little about the attempts to bring Lean to the National Health Se...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Making sense of Kanban (and some doubts)

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As regular readers will know I’m a fan of the Kanban software development process championed by David Anderson . However it has to be said ...
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Japanese translations

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As if having Changing Software Development translated to Japanese isn’t enough one keen reader has translated some of my blog entries to Ja...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Requirements not functionality

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A footnote to the recent discussion of requirements.... In Competitive Engineering Tom Gilb argues that development groups spend a lot of t...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Requirements: The next challenge for Agile

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Continuing my follow up to my latest tell of the Alignment Trap in the Agile Journal and on InfoQ . Lets get one thing straight: I’m not s...

Requirements: better off being generally right than precisely wrong

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I’m used to getting a reaction from people when I outline the Alignment Trap, and my article in the Agile Journal - and the subsequent rep...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Requirements come second

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A provocative piece from me in this month’s Agile Journal - Requirements Come Second. If you’ve not checked out the Agile Journal recently...