SCRUM
Daily Stand-Up Meetings
July 7, 2008 · 2 Comments
Daily Stand-up – 10 Rules to Inspect and Adapt! Projects get to be late one day at a time, so it seems logical to have a daily team meeting to ensure you are all on track, to find out any issues that may prevent you from hitting the dates, and to ensure that everyone is pulling in the same direction. It is therefore, arguably, the most important meeting a SCRUM team can have, and bizarrely it seems to be one of the least understood. Am I allowed to do this or that are common questions! So here is a ‘starter for 10’... [Read the full story]
XP
Technical Debt
July 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The term Technical Debt was coined by Ward Cunningham of XP fame. Technical debt is a burden and I am sure many will have experienced the following (which is not comprehensive): ‘We’ll do it in the next release’ – that never comes. The project got delivered – along with a maintenance team. We did it for good business reasons. “The architecture - let me see - I have a single power-point somewhere with a picture on it”. “To get anything released to production is a nightmare - we have to... [Read the full story]
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]