Sunday, November 15, 2015

Single Prioritised Input Queue

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Problem Context There are multiple sources for requests to do work which leads to unclear priority OR a de facto prioritisation approac...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Agile encourages developers not to think about the future?

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Does Agile encourage developers not to think about the future? You Ain't Gonna Need It The argument against  Premature Generalisation...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Agile is just throwing stuff together as quickly as possible?

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Is Agile just throwing stuff together as quickly as possible? The older version of this was some variant of "Extreme Programming is j...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Learning Agile Software Development the Hard Way

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1. Read Read one or more of the following: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck (If you're up for it, read ...
Sunday, September 06, 2015

Water spider Agile coaches, not water strider Agile coaches

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In Lean Manufacturing there is a role called mizusumashi or "water spider" which is nominally someone who fetches material for ope...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Designing a build pipeline is about impatience

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When I'm designing a build pipeline I'm primarily thinking about my impatience. How long am I willing to wait to get feedback?  Gi...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Solutions that DO help with "large, complex projects" in the enterprise

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As I posted earlier, "large, complex projects" in the enterprise tend to suffer from problems of alignment and overconfidence . ...