I was watching Simon Brown’s Frustrated Architect presentation and I found it an interesting trip through design approaches and artefacts. Although slightly irritated that some of the agile approaches seemed to be exaggerated for effect (although I admit that there are some really bad software development teams out there calling themselves agile), his conclusion was what […]
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It was good to be back at XP Day a few weeks ago to see old friends, meet some new people and have some interesting discussions. I decided to pitch an open space entitled Don’t Try This at Home to discuss agile practices that had crashed and burned for people in the past 12-24 months […]
I was watching Rachel Davies’ NDC session about moving from Scrum to Kanban earlier today. There was a question at one point regarding the length of the conversation in kanban standups from someone who was working in scrum. They were doing round-robin standups where each person is asked in turn about what they are doing. […]
It’s only 6 months since I left Barclays but it feels like a lifetime. It seems like a long time ago that I was walking the dog at 6.30am in the cold, wind and rain trying to read and type emails on my company Blackberry. Anyone who knows me will be aware that I wasn’t […]
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