Archive for the ‘agile’ Category
Monday, September 6th, 2010
In a much discussed blog entry Don Norman argues that customers prefer complex products to simple ones. He makes some compelling arguments but also misses an important aspect. Faced with two similar products, users will often choose the product with the greatest number of features. This would seem to lead ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
I am a great admirer of Lean thinking in general and Deming's work as a foundational part of it. In an age where everyone is talking about how ideas spread in seconds, his ideas were so subtle and counterintuitive that they are still being discovered many ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
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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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
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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Monday, August 31st, 2009
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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