We love Agile because it’s helping to open people to the idea that the process is not more important than the outcome. But we’re nervous because it’s in danger of becoming a process that’s more important than the outcome…
Agile 101 Video with HiveMind Expert Ian Carroll
Learn about the basics of Accelerated Delivery with leading expert practitioner Ian Carroll. In this short video we cover a number techniques including; Agile, Scrum and Kanban. Ideal for getting someone new to accelerated delivery up to speed quickly without too much detail.
“How deep” rebooted: values-based depth assessment
It’s fair to say that I have a complicated relationship with the Kanban Depth Assessment tool. With some excitement, I tweeted this picture from the 2102 Kanban Leadership retreat: The new “shallow versus deep”? #klrat pic.twitter.com/dLH3Gfj1 — Mike Burrows (@asplake) June … Continue reading →
Lean Risk Management Tool
I’ve been experimenting with this approach to risk assessment. Twelve simple questions that act as your crystal ball into the future on the mental impact the work you are undertaking may have to you and your team. It may also help you to get some insight into the likely outcome of your endeavor. All of these…
Who is Who in My Test Suite?
When you start out writing a test suite it is easy to see the benefits. Usually everyone in the team gets a boost from the assurance and extra quality you gain, and that has got to be a good thing. … Continue reading →
My InfoQ series on Kanban’s agendas, Agile India 2014, and some overdue thanks
Over the past few weeks InfoQ has published a series of three articles I’ve written on Kanban’s agendas. Older articles don’t link to newer articles so I list them here in order: The sustainability agenda The service orientation agenda The … Continue reading →
Yet another way to do BDD
Recently I was lucky enough to see talks by Ian Cooper (@icooper) and Rob Ashton (@robashton) where I had my eyes opened wide where BDD is concerned. The main things I took away were a new idea of what I … Continue reading →
Agile Benefits Management
Benefits in bite-sized bits… Agile delivers time-bound pieces of functionality. It has the flexibility to adapt to circumstances and lessons learned from previous time boxes.Benefits Management can work well in an Agile setting but it may have to run to keep up…
Time and materials vs fixed price fixed scope
As I mentioned in my previous post, most contracts attempt to transfer all risk to the supplier by locking in the scope, price, and timescales. What you’re actually doing here is locking in project failure from the outset. Your costs will almost certainly rocket as you get hit with change requests with hefty price tags. We … »
