Expanding the knowledge base of Software Development Excellence
Over the years I have always instructed Agile Team to not point Defects, or Spikes or Technical Debt, etc. Many of us Agile Coaches taught this way, it wasn’t just me. Then along came a blog post by Mike Cohn …
I first read about The Ball Game about 7 years ago. Maybe it wasn’t 7 years ago but it was long enough ago that I don’t even remember my first encounter. It was created by Boris Gloger (Kudo’s Boris) and …
Benefits of Agile Software Development for Senior and Executive Management from David Updike
Love him or hate him Steve Jobs was one of the most prolific product designers/developers in history and we would do well to listen to his insights. This part of an interview with Steve that highlights what he understands about the …
Steve Jobs on Product Development…or is he talking about Software Development? Read more »
Agile “Defects” Explained You won’t find a definition of Defect in the Agile Manifesto, Lean Software Development or Kanban but we all know we encounter problems and bugs in Software Development Projects but “Defects” are optional. So what is my …
I was once challenged on LinkedIn with a question about Agile Playbooks and if I had one that I used. My response was that I don’t have just one Playbook but multiple playbooks. The AgileManifesto.org, the Scrum Guide, Agile Estimating …
This is a very difficult question to answer as there are so many important aspects of any software development project. However, in my experience if a Project (any kind of Project) isn’t begun correctly a team will have one painful …