Loose Ends: Continuous Delivery & Conway's Law
A few weeks ago I did a presentation entitled “Conway’s Law and Continuous Delivery” - although it was also at some point entitled “Conway’s Law...
View ArticleFalse Projects
In my last post (Inconvenient Truths of Project Status Reporting) I used an expression which I think deserves highlighting and explaining: False...
View ArticleInconvenient Truths of Project Status Reporting
Long time readers of this blog may recall that I subscribe to the high-brow MIT Sloan Management Review. They may also remember that I’m never quite sure...
View ArticleHow Do I Make Testing Faster?
Earlier this week I was the guest of a large bank in the City, OK Canary Wharf actually. They had their own little internal Agile conference. As well as...
View ArticleWhat we forget about the Scientific Method
I get fed up hearing other Agile evangelists champion The Scientific Method, I don’t disagree with them, I use it myself but I think they are sometimes...
View ArticleBook: Scaling up Excellence
In the early days of this blog I used to regular blog book reviews. As I found ideas of my own to blog about - and found fewer books I wanted to read - so book...
View ArticleAgile outside of software
Later this week I’m doing a presentation at Agile On The Beach entitled: “Agile outside of software development”. (I resisted the temptation to call it...
View ArticleNightmare on Agile Street 2: Managed Agile
Blow me down, its happening again… I’m awake. I’m wet, its a cold sweat. Its the small hours of the morning and the dream is horrid.... I’ve been...
View ArticleEstimates or #NoEstimates? That is the question
To estimate or not to estimate, to join the #NoEstimates bang-wagon or not, that is the question. Maybe it is a navel gazing exercise for agile-folk but it...
View ArticleThe Estimates Land Mine: Use and Misuse of Estimates
After posting my last post - Estimate or #NoEstimate that is the question? - I felt a little as if I’d stepped on a land-mine. That is to say I had a few...
View ArticleContracts for Agile
Last week I did a presentation to the Agile 4 Agencies meet up group on the topic of “Agile Contracts” - although I believe “Contracts for Agile” might...
View Article#NoProjects / #BeyondProjects - Agile Tour & Lean Kanban UK conference
The next few weeks sees me delivering my #NoProjects/#BeyondProjects presentation at two London conference - Agile Tour London (Friday this week) and Lean...
View ArticleDialogue Sheets Update (1 of 2)
It has been a while since I’ve written about Dialogue Sheets here - or indeed anywhere else. So here is a quick update and a request for some guinea pigs - I...
View Article#NoProjects/#BeyondProjects: A Developer Footnote
Recently I delivered a revised version of my “The End of Projects and What to do Next” presentation - otherwise known as #NoProjects / #BeyondProjects. The...
View ArticleDoes Agile require cultural change?
If Woody Allen were an Agile Coach Consultant he might say: “#Agile without culture change is an empty experience; but as empty experience go its one of...
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