Category: Agile
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But is it Science?
The world of software is a science? An Engineering disciple? A world of freelancers and hackers? Or something else? Is it a science? The Scientific Method (Condensed from Wikipedia) The scientific method seeks to objectively explain events in a reproducible way. A hypothesis is put forward (If we do this, then we get that) and…
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Estimations, a blog from the past
As part of my previous work at HP, I had been working at defining the approach to preparing and estimating features and user stories in one of my client’s projects. Here these stories are prepared through the early discovery events and progress through demand to the development teams. This post describes the estimations that were…
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A Pilot to see where we are going
When looking to setting up an Agile pilot we need to do some end-to-end thinking. Agile trials are often small teams set up to test the Agile principles, the purpose of which is to provide evidence that Agile should be considered for a larger roll-out. So we take a group of people and train them,…
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What is Agile?
We keep hearing different opinions about what is Agile. Those who understand it the least describe it as a series of processes that can be applied to the software development business as need be. Others, more academic refer to it as a culture, and claim that the culture must be established before any processes can…
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If You Don’t Know What “Done” Is, You Never Finish
I have been working with a number of teams recently that are behind. It always seems that people believe that when they are in trouble with respect to time that Agile is the answer. Strange. The discussion does however follow a pattern. It becomes almost automatic to go down this path. Q: So do you…