In my work life, I’ve been running a couple of projects lately where I had choices about who to include on the project team. Historically, I have been unhappy with the approach used by my company. People are essentially an interchangeable resource although each resource should have the right set of skills. Individuals are in [...]
Tagged project managementAnyone else getting asked is agile just a fad? Has it gone mainstream? Anyone else wondering why we are seeing people saying, “we’re doing agile” and others arguing that of course they haven’t, it’s just expedient? According to my loose interpretation of Mary Poppendeick on a Hanselminutes podcast, of course agile is a fad. Well [...]
I was having some correspondence today with someone I met at Agile2008. At conference we were talking about the role of (TDD) tools to enhancement communication and the nature of relationships. He wrote: I feel an urge to look less at automated acceptance testing (AAT) and more how the communication between customer and developer team [...]
The first thing that I want to establish is that I trying to think about software development within a context of something we might want to call agile. So, if agile is a decrease in cycle times, delivering functionality more frequently against bigger batches of work less often, then you can count me in as [...]
The first thing that I want to establish is that I trying to think about software development within a context of something we might want to call agile. So, if agile is a decrease in cycle times, delivering functionality more frequently against bigger batches of work less often, then you can count me in as [...]