Dave BartlettinThe AgilistProduct Owner OverreachI’ve seen Product Owners (PO) new to the role destroy team morale and the flow of work by injecting themselves between the development team…Feb 21, 2016Feb 21, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistKanban release trainKanban is an ideal candidate to use with a “Release Train”. The Release Train works like a freight train that leaves every week at the same…Feb 14, 2016Feb 14, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistValue starts at sprint 1“Can you have a successful sprint and not have a business value delivered at the end?” — No you can’t — scrum mandates a working product…Feb 9, 2016Feb 9, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistStop looking at the cost sideLet’s say our Product Owner or stakeholder/customer informs us that they would by happy to implement a backlog item if it cost 50, but not…Feb 8, 2016Feb 8, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistTools cannot measure technical debtThe thing is, as a developer, if you don’t know how much technical debt you have, a tool isn’t going to help you. You need to understand…Feb 4, 2016Feb 4, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistBusiness Analysts != Product OwnersBusiness Analysts are often thrust into the Product Owner (PO) role in scrum because they seem to be the closest thing that exists in the…Feb 1, 2016Feb 1, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistEnterprise agilityI question whether many large organisations are capable of becoming agile, even in the presence of an existential threat.Jan 31, 2016Jan 31, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistMicrosoft is agileThis may come as a surprise, but Microsoft’s 4000 strong developer division (the guys who develop Visual Studio, TFS and other developer…Jan 31, 2016Jan 31, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistRefactoring across domainsRapid, constant refactoring within a domain is possible and desirable, but I suspect you’d want to be much slower and more deliberate about…Jan 21, 2016Jan 21, 2016
Dave BartlettinThe AgilistZero defectsDeveloping a culture of zero defects all the time is an essential attribute of high performing agile teams. This is closely linked to the…Jan 20, 2016Jan 20, 2016