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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Seven deadly sins of Agile

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In theology, a deadly sin is believed to destroy the life of grace and charity within a person and thus creates the threat of eternal damna...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Agile Cargoism

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In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people.  During the war, they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the ...

Power to the Product Owner

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We call the Product Owner "single wringable neck" of any agile project. It's a good thing to have one person who is responsi...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Waterfall Kanban

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Kanban is a very lean, efficient process for getting work done. Since Kanban minimized Work in Progress and makes bottlenecks visible, I t...
Sunday, June 1, 2014

Just get it done quickly - whatever "done" means ...

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Imagine the following: You go to a restaurant, order a Chicken Wings with fries ... and then wait. When you finally ask the waiter, he sa...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Wrong assumptions - Take nothing for granted!

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As a Product Owner, my primary responsibility is for the "What" of the team, not for the "How". This week, we had a co...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Continuous Integration that isn't

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I have seen people who run  Jenkins  and claim that they have realized CI. Actually, one of those people was me , a couple years down the ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Done undone

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As a Product Owner, it is my key responsibility is ensuring that the customer is satisfied with the product. As the SCRUM Team, it is ou...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

The worst possible Performance metric

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Developer performance is not easy to measure. Why is this? Because a developer's primary objective should be to find the overall simple...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Mocked loophole: Failure to test unit integration!

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We recently had a project where we had to experiment with Unit Testing in a Procedural Environment. Being familiar only with tests in an Ob...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Work Done doesn't matter

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It was a small company which just decided to transition towards SCRUM. The team I coached was highly competent, they actually did a good j...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Versioning Failure

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It was many years ago, when I first was introduced to the marvels of a Version Control System when working as a developer for an Enterprise ...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Are you smart or stupid?

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Everyone wants to appear "smart", nobody wants to appear "stupid". In  this blog , the author describes why we should a...

Proud to Fail

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Whether you are working in an Agile environment or not, there are small and big failures every day. As long as we are humans, we are not om...