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The obsolete idea of requirements

2010.02.02 – 11:50

The writing of requirements is one of the core practices in software development. Most people hate the job but they see it as something that is fundamentally necessary. But what if the whole idea of requirements is wrong? What would software development look like without requirements? I ...

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The curse of replacement projects

2010.01.26 – 21:01

I was at a Meetup the other day with Eric Evans. I liked the talk even if it was very similar to the one he gave at the last JavaZone. Eric makes the same point as I do in respect to replacement projects. They are more expensive than ...

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Software 2010

2010.01.19 – 11:57

This year I am honored to be speaking twice at the Software2010 conference. This is one of the oldest and largest IT conferences in Norway as far as I know. The first talk is Hvordan lykkes som kunde i et smidig prosjekt?. For those of you that have trouble with ...

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Do you have the wrong product owner?

2009.12.15 – 13:45

Developers in agile projects often tell me the greatest challenges in they face are in relation to the product owner. The specific issues vary but a couple of things usually come up: The product owner does not have enough time and is often not available The product owner is not able to ...

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The value of value

2009.11.03 – 13:51

This week Kai Gilb published the first two posts in a series criticizing the current state of agile and Scrum. On principle I would have welcomed this since I think there are a number of serious problems in the way agile and Scrum are being adopted. Agile is in the ...

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The beauty of the counterintuitive

2009.11.02 – 15:16

Agile and lean thinking in software are entering the early majority phase of adoption. This is as always a confusing period since the beginners greatly outnumber the more experienced practitioners. Misunderstandings are rife and a lot of people are struggling to transition to a new way of thinking about software ...

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Prosjektveiviseren

2009.10.30 – 15:28

Difi har lansert en prosjektveiviser. Jeg er ikke helt begeistret og har startet en diskusjon på smidig forumet.

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Smidig 2009

2009.10.26 – 14:23

Smidig 2009 er over. Det var to intense dager den 22-23. oktober. Min lyntale om release strategi ble filmet og ligger her. Nå skal Johannes Brodwall og jeg jobbe videre med Wikien og boken. Vi jobber for tiden med å intervjue personer som har slitt med release strategi i sine ...

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Agile release strategy wiki

2009.09.23 – 7:43

A new Wiki is being set up by Johannes Brodwall and myself: Agile Release Strategies. The purpose of this wiki is to collect techniques that make it possible to release a system to production earlier and more often. We believe that releasing often is one of the most important factors ...

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Agile release strategy

2009.08.31 – 18:56

After having given my talk on release strategy in replacement projects on Agile 2009 (here are the slides and paper) I got to thinking about release strategy in general. I find it strange that Scrum is prescriptive about iteration length but says nothing about release length. I believe that release ...

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