Part 9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design, and… 10. Simplicity

In truth, I found this sits at a level above the understanding and capability of almost all contemporary agile developers on the market. If they understood it, they would…

MadLab, FabLab

In April, one of Manchester’s most famous Community tech groups opens its FabLab in the City. What can you expect from Manchester’s newest makerspace? We were privileged to take a look…

3D Printing, Help for Product Designers

Tips for “Pretotyping”, Prototyping and Playing with physical product models

Part 12. Regular adaptation to changing circumstances

With self-organising teams, this is a reality at the development level. However, what about the enterprise?

Agility is a big buzzword at the moment and in a lot of cases, quite rightly too. However, an…

Part 8. Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted

A project may contain sub-projects. Each sub-project is in itself a project to deliver a capability (aka a piece of functionality) in accordance with success criteria which includes all…

Part 11. Self-organizing teams

TOGAF, as mentioned already, facilitates the identification of capabilities at different levels. This can include the functions of QA, Business Analysis, Development, Architecture, Test, Technical Infrastructure and the like within the IT capability. As long as the vision of…

Gatecrashing: Or rather, exploring other domains outside your own

A chance twitter conversation on jurisprudence reminded me to unashamedly re-purpose a Pulse