Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
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Following a couple of threads recently on the kanbandev Yahoo! group, I thought I’d try and put down my experiences and thoughts on the subject. In a timebox-based agile process, such as Scrum or XP, the retrospective typically happens at the end of the iteration, and is one of the items coupled to the iteration cadence. Removing the iteration, and …
There’s been some discussion recently on InfoQ and in the XP Yahoo! Group, as to whether estimation could or should be considered as waste. My recent view has been that estimation is waste, but I think I am refining that position to be that “traditionally recognised” estimation is waste, and that there are subtleties which mean that some sort of …
One of the metaphors I use when I talk why a kanban system has work-in-progress (WIP) limits, is traffic jams. The greater the WIP, the lower the throughput, and this effect can be seen when too many cars clog up a motorway. Watching the BBC’s “Britain from Above” last night, they had an interesting section on this subject, including a …
All presentations are now available on the Downloads page. The KFC Development files are in Office 2007 format, so if you have an earlier version of Office you’ll need to download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.
Alan Cooper’s closing keynote turned out to be surprisingly good for me. There were points when I wondered where he was going, and whether I agreed, but by the end I was won over. His closing sentence was “Agile is the best thing to happen to Interaction Design”, and his key message seemed to be to iterate more at the …
Thursday morning was take up with presenting “KFC Development”. We were really pleased with how this went – around 20 people came along, and I think everyone stayed the course! Unfortunately we ran a bit over and had to stop short the final simulation, but I think we had got the ideas across by then. If you attended, please leave …
Wednesday kicked off for me with a talk by Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson on “Natural Laws of Software Development” where they began with some basic ideas about delivering features and value early, and from that, derived most of the XP practices. On the way they described some continuum, which struck me as good ways of thinking about approaches to …
This is a quick brain dump of the day for me – brief summaries and key highlights that stood out. The conference kicked off with an interesting keynote by James Suroweicki, author of Wisdom of the Crowds. Essentiallly this is about how collective intelligence can be better than individual intelligence. For example, we had a live experiment where all attendees …
Following on from some posts that have been shared in the Agile2008 FriendFeed Room, here are my recommendations for what to attend (excluding my sessions!) Tuesday Morning Behaviour Driven Development Using Plain Old JUnit, Elizabeth Keogh & Dan North – should given an interesting insight to how BDD is compared to plain old TDD. Learning Kaizen from Toyota (with Mindmaps), …
Agile 2008 is almost here and I’m looking forward to presenting 3 sessions this year. Managers Introduction to Test Driven Development (with Dave Nicolette) Wednesday 6th, 16:00 – 17:30, Civic Ballroom South, Customers & Business Value Stage The purpose of this session is to help non-technical managers understand the business value of one of the popular agile software development techniques. …