Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
Karl Scotland – Using Agility Strategically
The conference was opened by BBC’s Ian Palmer, who also hosted Day 1, and he began by making the analogy between delivering a software project and delivering a news story. There is a deadline, and a budget, but at the end of the day, its the story that’s important. Keynote: Peter Morowski – Senior VP R&D Borland – Driving Agile …
I’m going to be at the Agile Business Conference this week, primarily to give another performance of “A Manager’s Guide to Test Driven Development” with Dave Nicolette. I’ll try and blog highlights here again, and if you’re there, please say hello. I’ll be looking for any opportunity to talk about Kanban I can find!
I’ve been doing more introductory Agile and Scrum training recently, and have been thinking about the best way to get across the core ideas that underpin Agile. I find the Manifesto Values a bit too woolly, and the Principles too wordy, to be immediately meaningful. At the same time, David Anderson has blogged again about Recipes for Success. I’ve decided …
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 …