Monthly Archives: April 2010
As Work Changes, So Must Managers
Posted on April 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
Here is an article published in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year which is very relevant to today’s rapidly changing environment and the role of managers on Agile Projects. (Mark Hurd who was my former CEO at HP is mentioned in the article) What is a manager? In simplest terms, a manager is someone […]
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Managing Defects on Agile Projects
Posted on April 12, 2010 2 Comments
This recent Dilbert comic strip reminded me of a situation when a client was raising cosmetic defect as severity 2. It is often not clear what a defect is and at what level to raise it at (despite agreed severity descriptions) as my example above shows. And some defects are raised without being related to […]
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Don’t rely on overtime to salvage a plan
Posted on April 9, 2010 2 Comments
I came across a nice analogy today in Mike Cohn’s Succeeding with Agile book which describes what sustainable pace means: Watch any marathon, and each runner will keep it up for 26.2 miles. Look more closely, however, and you’ll notice that the pace is not entirely consistent from mile to mile. Each works a little […]
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Waterfall Alliance
Posted on April 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
[Humor] Details of the Waterfall Alliance was released on 1 April 2010, which is driven by the values and principles of the Waterfall Manifesto for Realistic Software Development. Some great resources can be found on the Waterfall Alliance website. Further news of the Waterfall 2010 conference has been delayed (yet again).
