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
Posted by: on November 25th, 2010
SYNOPSIS There is a lot of confusion amongst scrum practitioners on what a theme is.I have seen articles that talk about the theme for a sprint (I see a sprint theme as a goal.) I cannot say that this is incorrect as it depends on the perception of the individual. This article provides you with
Posted by: on October 23rd, 2009
I once observed a practice where story cards were only estimated based on the development effort. This is problematic as it has one specific focus and not looking at the total work that needs to be completed for a story to be moved into done. Product development is not just about writing code.
Posted by: on October 22nd, 2009
I have written this article in the hope that it will remove a lot of confusion in our industry on what a user story is. If you are transitioning from heavyweight to agile methods you may find this useful. I have not included estimation and how we manage stories on the backlog etc and will