I was having a lovely discussion with a very intelligent and articulate person the other day and they offered an example of a User Story.
A huge mistake I keep seeing in industry articles and in organizations I’ve personally been a part of is the notion that Agile belongs…
A few years ago, I was hired as a Group Development Manager in a company which outsourced all of its work. Our Managed Service Partner would take our “asks” and perform what they touted as “Agile Processes” to deliver “the right product”. The only problem was, the…
Over in Redditland, and here in Medium, for that matter, I’ve seen a bunch of articles to the effect of “why bother estimating software?” My mind boggles at this. The reasons ought to be obvious, but clearly, they’re not — hence me sitting down and writing this article.
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For the love of all things, let’s set something straight. Scaled Agile Framework doesn’t own the…
Ahh, the ellusive Definition of Done.
I read an article today — yet another variation of “Scrum Isn’t Dead, But…” Alas, this one, like so many others, glossed over a fundamental problem area that plagues Scrum and so many other pipelines.
Dear Software Industry,
Ahh, the Daily Scrum. Essential daily meeting or utter waste of time?
Let’s explore ways of optimizing this Scrum essential so that it’s useful and minimally impactful, shall we?
There are a lot of unfortunate posts both here on Medium as well as other forms and platforms which talk about the Agile Methodology. I’ll admit to cringing when I read these. Not quite as much as I cringe when people use Story and Task interchangeably, but that’s…
Truly successful software delivery requires far more.
