Category: Featured
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Risky Business
What could possibly go wrong? You have your visions, plans, roadmaps and a great programme board backed up with lots of exhilarating dialogue. The risks have been ROAMed and everything is under control. In the words of Captain Picard “Make it So”. And so you begin. I go back now to past experiences with risk…
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Agile Values and continuous flow
I was asked recently “How do I summarise the Agile Values as defined in the manifesto?” My feeling about this and why do we have these values is because software is about people, not things. It is about We, not ME. For example We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and…
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Citizenship
I have recently read the book by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde: Large Scale Scrum: More with LeSS The book is an excellent source for ideas and stories, however the idea that teams are empowered to rejected group decisions because a team has full autonomy should be examined. For example if two teams are working…
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Shifting Right
We have all heard about the technique of Shift Left, where test activity is brought to the earlier stages of the life cycle. This is a great way to improve product development as it moves testing activities to the left, which removes ambiguity from the development team. This is enhanced with activities such as TDD,…
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Join The Dots
Joining the dots up is a way to suggest that everything is connected. For example the simplest model we can draw is. But the reality is more like this: Warning, this is a simplified view! The reality is that in both cases the most important measurements are the simple ones that apply to figure 1.…
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Incremental Design
This is the title of a series of articles I have been putting together. The subject is interesting to me for a number of reasons. Design is a subject I have been working on for some 40 years. Moving to an agile way of working has been challenging for many people, especially those who are…
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Beginner’s Mind
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki For a number of reasons, the world of Agile borrows thinking from the world of Martial Arts. An example is Shu-Ha-Ri, the phases of learning called copy, adapt and master. While this is an approach to learning, there…