Lean and Agile Category
The Mythical Man-Month Is Not A Myth
Posted on May 18, 2010 3 Comments
Image Source: Scott Adams Brooks’ law is a principle in software development which says that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”. It was coined by Fred Brooks in his well renowed 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. There was a recent project where unrealistic timelines were imposed on a team and the […]
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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
Image Source: Scott Adams 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 […]
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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).
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There is no ‘Best Practice’ in Agile
Posted on March 22, 2010 3 Comments
Joe Townsend has written an article along the lines what I have been saying for a while now – in Agile there is no ‘best practice’, and as Townsend puts it What works for you, your team, division, corporation, etc. can bring another person, team, etc. to a screeching halt. In particular, one needs to […]
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Large-Scale Agile
Posted on February 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
Despite that we are still yet to finish the current scope of work for the Agile Initiatives, we are starting to discuss future items in our backlog – distributed Agile and Agile@Scale. There are a few projects in flight that couple of colleagues are working on that are large Agile programs of work. Large-Scale Agile […]
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Agile as a way to profitable growth
Posted on February 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
Not only should Agile or Lean concepts be adopted for projects, but it should also be harnessed at an organizational level to be more competitive. By focusing more on the bottom line and ignoring the human capital it was one of the reasons What Killed GM: General Motors managers became very numbers obsessed and bottom-line […]
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Bridging IT and business
Posted on February 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
Image Source: Scott Adams We sometimes hear that business is not getting value out of IT. Technology and tools are constantly improving but we often have missed expectations. The need to align business and IT is getting more important. Incorrect assumptions of what the client needs often leads to incorrect actions resulting in wasted effort. […]
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Book Review – Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
Posted on January 11, 2010 Leave a Comment
To date there is a lot of Agile literature focussing on development. So it was refreshing to see a book focusing on Agile Testing. Agile methods have transformed the way we do testing and the role of the tester. Testing up front is a big mind-shift change for testers and management. Agile Testing: A Practical […]
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