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1% improvement
Keeping with the numerical and financial theme of the last couple of blogs I want to turn my attention to…
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Kanban paradox: Kanban compared to Scrum
For a while now I’ve been seeing a paradox with Kanban. Specifically, Kanban compared to Scrum. For a team new…
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MVP is a marketing exercise not a technology exercise
… Minimally Viable Product Possibly the most fashionable and misused term the digital industry right now. The term seems to…
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Utilisation and non-core team members
“But we have specialists outside the team, we have to beg… borrow… steal people… we can never get them when…
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Definition of Ready considered harmful
Earlier this week I was with a team and discussion turned to “the definition of ready.” This little idea has…
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Documentation is another deliverable and 7 other rules
We (the programmers) had documentation coming out our ears. Architecture documents, design documents, user guides, functional specifications, program specifications, and…
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Why do devs hate Agile?
Someone asked me this the other day: “Why do devs hate agile?” and as I worked through my answer I…
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Clinic: Product Owner/Manager question
An old product manager friend writes…. “Just started a new gig as senior product manager at blah blah blah Discovering…
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Heavy lifting is the easy bit
If you want to annoy me say something like “Building software should be like building a house…”. To say I’m…
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