The following is an excerpt from a recent presentation I did on Agile and Coldfusion - the subject of this excerpt is Indecision.   more »

The following is an excerpt from a recent presentation I did on Agile and Coldfusion - the subject of this excerpt is Vague Requirements.   more »

there are many teams who would say they run iterations or sprints when in fact they are running increments or phases and therefore missing out on the real benefit of iterations or sprints   more »

I have been involved in setting up a new forum called the UK ColdFusion Business Group with Claude Englebert of Adobe. The group is business focused and not concerned with technical aspects of the platform - the idea is to promote the benefits of ColdFusion in an Agile environment and indeed in generating an agile environment.
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Its not just the human that is agile – all of life is agile – capable even of adapting to the catastrophic change brought about by the KT boundary event that rid us of the dinosaurs.   more »

I'm based in the UK and unlikely to attend unless I see something that really motivates me to argue with the boss to pay for the jaunt rather than visit one of my clients in the Middle East or Africa.   more »

I hope this helps to convey that boundaries and structure do exist in the agile process. In order for it to work properly agile needs to be just as disciplined as any other software development process so as for those who feel “agile is a bit to ad-hoc” or “a bit too loose” – maybe they don’t understand it well enough.   more »

...the word concentric assits the concept that all the processes in agile "have a common center" - that being quality and delivery...   more »

Introducing the daily stand-up to a team has its challenges so this article offers advice on how to facilitate that change and make the scrum more effective.   more »

In previous articles in this series I’ve discussed how to pull together a simple agile approach based around Card Conversation Confirmation. In part 5 I want to illustrate how this can be introduced in a traditional lifecycle.   more »

So what is it that is so complex about answering this question? Well - maybe the traditional project management role needs to be adapted to fit the agile world - the old dog needs to learn new tricks perhaps.   more »

Rizwan.Tayabali recently posted a blog on waterfall v agile which I interpreted very much as process v people.   more »

From day 1 – why do you decide to become agile – because it will bring benefits – how will you know these have been realised – you will need to measure them – which should be straight forward assuming its some measurement you’re not happy with that made you decide to become agile to fix it in the first place.   more »

I would point out that the product backlog isn't much more than a list - and is only going to be as complicated as you make it   more »

Next comes Work Flow; the processes or the stages, indeed the lifecycle of a User Story from its initial conception to its deployment on the production platform.   more »

Using structured user stories in the form AS A, I WANT TO and SO THAT offers a greater agile benefit to the data that represents the requirements without adding in too much additional data to supply the structure - it gets the balance just right on ceremony.   more »

This weekend I've released the first beta version of my new agile tool at CardConversationConfirmation.com - and its completely FREE to use.   more »

... a challenge when there are dependancies on another team, in another organisation, who are not running an agile project. How should these types of dependancies be managed effectively while maintaining an agile sprint orientated approach at home?   more »

Agile teams should strive to ensure the daily stand up is firmly established as their focal practise - but that can be a challenge and while it is something else more amenable needs to take its place.   more »

When a developer recieves a brief that isn't detailed enough its no surprise - we can't necessarily expect the business to fully understand how to articulate its requirements to a technical team. But when the business suddenly realises there's an important detail they didn't mention before just when the developer is proudly admiring his wonderful work on the last day of build - you can't deny him is startled expression. Especially as its communicated as "I have an urgent business critical change that must be delivered on the planned deployment date come what may."   more »

Is there such a thing as the opposite of SCRUM? And can it work? ...   more »