Posted by: on February 14th, 2012
I think the terms acceptance criteria, acceptance tests etc have caused a lot of confusion, in some environments they are separate, in others they are blurred. I always strive to ensure that the acceptance criteria for a theme, epic or story is defined. This acceptance criteria is the outcome and agreement with stakeholders, customers and
Posted by: on February 13th, 2012
I had a thought today and I looked back long ago to when I was not using agile and how my project managers reported. In most organisations we have the so called ‘traffic light’ status report. I spent some time reflecting on experiences and it is very easy to see how agile really does take
Posted by: on February 12th, 2012
I have written this article in the hope that it will help people avoid experiencing the mess that I have seen companies get themselves into on enterprise projects. I say enterprise projects here and this refers to your large program / project corporate environment. On small projects, other environments or in a ‘heaven’ scenario where
Posted by: on February 2nd, 2012
I feel that as agilists we forget how agile can impact people. Agile is trying to undo decades of behaviour and practices, it is a massive change for some. Agile does not fail it is people who fail. Every failure I have been in has resulted in failure only because of non acceptance or where
Posted by: on February 2nd, 2012
Agile retrospectives are all about getting the team to self-reflect, provide unified feedback and from that feedback take actions to self-improve. I saw the feedback model for individuals and thought that it could easily be adapted for retrospectives and seems to offer much more than a simple what went bad what went wrong practice. Retrospective