I am wiped out as I am on the plane home from my most recent experience at MIT. This week the topic was Big Data. Big Data is a big topic around the water cooler these days, so I thought it would be important to learn more about it. The title of the course was [...]
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At the Epicenter of Big Data Research
Posted in Agile, Big Data, Buzzing Topics, Management and Leadership Topics, Mobile Development, Software Development, Technology Topics, tagged Big data, change, data, management, research, review, technology on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Blog Post Review – Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, business analysis, requirements, software quality on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was reading an interesting blog post about requirements within Agile processes. It’s a topic I have been discussing with my team as we struggle to find the appropriate balance of process and agility. The big “a ha” for me was the concept of “done” requirements. The author has written about this in a book, [...]
Traceability in Agile: How Do We Do That?
Posted in Agile, Buzzing Topics, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, leadership, management, project management, regulation, Scrum, traceability on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The good news is that the product my team is developing is being adopted broadly within the organization. The bad news is that in the future in order for my software to be used in products subject to regulated enviroments we will not pass scrutiny. Seeing this problem out there on the horizon has inspired [...]
Partial Resources: It’s Always The “Other Project”
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, prioritization, project management, resources, Scrum on January 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In a perfect world, we’d like all of our Scrum team members to be fully dedicated and committed to delivery on a project. The reality is that scrum masters and product owners have to deal with less than perfect conditions under which they have to deliver high-quality software. It’s always the “other project” that prevents [...]
Proximity: How Much Does It Really Matter?
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, proximity, space planning on January 19, 2010 | 6 Comments »
We are facing a great problem at work — growth. With that, comes the whole notion of space planning to house new people joining the team. And adding space and things like cubes, phones and so on do has cost. As I enter into this space planning mode, I can’t help but wonder if it [...]
Doing Offshore Development: My Key Success Factors
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, leadership, management, offshore, success on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A little over two years ago, I took on the endeavor of offshoring development of my software project. This was something new to me, from an execution point of view. As I embarked on the process of engaging an offshore team, I got a lot of advice from colleagues. Some of it was even solicited [...]
Big Plays Post On Marcato Partners Site
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Visit the Marcato Partners site to see the Sprint Contract Part I post at http://marcatopartners.com/2009/12/19/the-sprint-contract-part-i/. This company is on the forefront of Agile consulting and have a comprehensive set of service offerings to help customers develop their software applications. Highly recommend them for your software development projects.
The Sprint Contract – Part II: Producing the Document
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, Product Owner, Scrum, Sprint Contract on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a product owner, I need the commitment between the product owner and the release manager to be documented prior to the sprint beginning. In my previous post I described the genesis of the sprint contract idea based on a blog post I read. I also described why there was a need for such a [...]
The Sprint Contract, Part I
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, Product Owner, Scrum, Sprint Contract on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a Product Owner, I need the development team to deliver the functionality agreed upon during sprint planning. My scrum team had developed the tendency to quickly defer user stories they did not complete into the next sprint. The tool allowed them to game the burndown so that it always looked like performed well, but [...]
