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How Agile would have saved project ORCA
Working in the Web Development industry it’s easy to get the impression that everyone involved in software knows about Agile and is at least paying it lip service even if their processes are not really...
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User stories and asking “Five Whys”
We are currently coaching a new team into the ways of Agile and one of the problems we’ve encountered is getting the devs to write cards or stories using the standard Agile story formats. To Agile...
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Validated Learnings: How Heroku Pivot and Adapt
My team at Westfield.com are always trying to educate the business sponsors to implement the simplest possible thing – to release the minimum viable product and generate validated learnings rather than...
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How to be an Agile Product Owner in 15 minutes
Wonderful short video on how to be a Product Owner – should be required viewing for all PO’s and similarly essential viewing for anyone that’s trying to understand the principles of Agile. Captured in...
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A years 20% time in one go?
This is what Jason Fried of 37signals did when he gave his company a month to work on projects of their own choosing. Sounds radical at first thought but if you have dedicated passionate people it...
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The philosophy of Continuous Deployment
Over the past few years my team have been on a journey toward Continuous Deployment – this has involved changing our architecture, our attitude towards testing, and our tolerance toward slow build...
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Agile Values
When I first started out with Agile software development I went looking for an agile analogue of the “Joel Test.” I wanted some kind of check-list I could run through to ensure that what we were doing...
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Should a team assign points to bugs in a sprint?
I’ve been watching a discussion on a LinkedIn Agile group about whether or not a team should assign points (or estimates generally) to a bug for inclusion in a sprint. I’m going to write about how our...
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Iterating vs Dabbling
Iterating vs Dabbling Agilists are often urging each other to “iterate” — that is to make small, incremental changes and test each change in the market as you go. Iterating makes sense, especially when...
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We are the business
An ex-manager of mine once pointed out that we need to stop talking about “the business.” Doing so gives leverage to those claiming to represent “the business” and limits the influence of the...
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