Defining Requirements

You’ve defined the project goals in broad strokes and are talking to someone that can build your web application. The next step is to plan the first stages of the project so that you can start shipping software.

Why Senior Developers don’t like Agile

In response to https:[email protected][email protected]hands-on-engineering-directors-b88b0d15fbdf#.qjyryxpjz

Your expectations are to high. Majority of so called experience developers never used TDD and also, even a higher number, never did pair programming. Also majority of the companies are not applying those techniques. Personally in a single company I’ve managed to use pair programming, because as team we decide to do it as an experiment and we manage…

On Agile

When you joined, you were informed that our organisation does “agile”. We explained to you what this meant and how it would play a major role in the way you build software within our organisation. You were told that “agile” was something good, that it should be aspired to, and that it is miles better than the…

Retrospective Findings

I thought it would be interesting to summarize some results from recent a retrospective conducted with a team new to Agile. After lots of discussion, back and forth and about 2.5 trees worth of post-it notes they settled on 3 items.

• The team does not understand…

Eradicating Waste: The 7 Muda (and one for the road)

Lean Waste 1: Transportation

Lean systems’ roots go back more than 70 years. Made famous by Toyota in the 1970's and 80's it’s the centrepiece of lean thinking in today’s world. It aims to…