SCRUM
SCRUM & Project Management
October 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
SCRUM is a management framework. True. Its light - very light. It asks that we deliver business value frequently, in sensible chunks. So far so good - because in doing so we are delivering in high priority order, and if we run out of time then hey - we will at least have delivered some value to the business. This is risk mitigation at its simplest. However, SCRUM by itself is insufficient. On a large project we need ways of co-ordinating activities and dependencies between projects. We need someone or ’something’... [Read the full story]
XP
Pair Programming
December 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I could not write an article on pair programming better than this http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1395 An excellent well thought out and researced article on pair programming, the upside and downside. More up than down! And some great tips here: http://benpryor.com/blog/2007/01/23/tips-for-pair-programming/ Read More →
TOC
Theory of Constraints
June 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I know I bang on about this time and time again! However if you want to get Agile you need to find the constraints within the organisation. You need to remove them as quickly as possible if you want product - i.e software to flow. Frameworks such as SCRUM are but one part of the Agile picture. When you attend a daily meeting and are asked for the impediments affecting your progress - think constraints. Read More →
Podcasts
PODCASTS
June 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I will soon be venturing into creating some Podcasts - when I get the time and the inclination Gear is in house - and for those that are interested in kit, it includes an Edirol 16ch Digital Mixer, a Shure SM7B Microphone with Adobe Audition as the recording software on Windows Vista. The quality of the recording is excellent…the content…well I’ll let you be the judge! Enough! A very interesting source of Podcasts on Agile entitled - Agile Toolkit Podcast can be found here: http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/ -... [Read the full story]
Links
Lean Links
July 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Lean Software Engineering - an excellent blog - check out SCRUM-BAN Read More →
Lean
Competing on the basis of Speed
June 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment
This is an interesting if only mildly thought provoking video. I am currently working with a company in the betting and gaming industry. Sports events happen all the time - an you guessed it - the company needs to move fast according to the up and coming Sports Calendar in order to have products out there competing with others in what is fast becoming one of the most competitive industries around. One thing that competitors can do, particularly in the online industry is to copy your products quickly especially once they... [Read the full story]
TQM
Defect Removal Rates
June 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
As has been stated previously, Agile encompasses more than a methodology or framework. Total Quality Management is also of major importance because higher quality = less rework = higher thoughput into production. The following table highlights the defect removal efficiency rates associated with the most common techniques. For a relatively modest input -e.g. formal code inspection, the output is a much lower defect density. The interesting thing is the fact that Testing is less effective at finding defects than formal activities.... [Read the full story]
Agile
Tesco - Software For the Agile Business
July 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment
An interesting insight into the Software that Tesco uses to allow them to move quickly. Tesco needs scalability, robustness, and speed across multiple platforms - the web, mobile devices etc. Read More →
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Competing on the basis of Speed
This is an interesting if only mildly thought provoking video. I am currently working with a company in the betting and gaming industry. Sports events happen all the time - an you guessed it - the company needs to move fast according to the up and coming Sports Calendar in order to have products out there competing with others in what is fast becoming one of the most competitive industries around. One thing that competitors can do, particularly in the online industry is to copy your... [Read more]
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PODCASTS
I will soon be venturing into creating some Podcasts - when I get the time and the inclination Gear is in house - and for those that are interested in kit, it includes an Edirol 16ch Digital Mixer, a Shure SM7B Microphone with Adobe Audition as the recording software on Windows Vista. The quality of the recording is excellent…the content…well I’ll let you be the judge! Enough! A very interesting source of Podcasts on Agile entitled - Agile Toolkit Podcast can... [Read more]