What I learned from chopping wood
When I moved to a farm, three years ago, I thought I would be able to take what I had learned from consulting and agile and apply it to farming. I soon found out that I was wrong. The true lessons were not in what I could re-apply in farming…
Rock star agile developers
[bibshow] Rock star agile developers. We are all talking about them. But are they truly out there? Studies show that developer productivity falls into a wide range. An average run-of-the mill developer has a productivity of 1. A great programmer might be a 10. A poor programmer might be a…
Risk Management in Three Simple Steps
[bibshow] Risk management is a diverse topic. It can be the simple intuitive risk handling that we do in our everyday lives. We are born with a survival instinct, or a risk aversion [bibcite key=”citeulike:454986″], that helps us avoid falling off roofs and other dangerous things. Risk management can also…
Guest appearance on Architecture Corner
I recently had the pleasure of meeting with Casimir Artmann and feature as a guest on his “Architecture Corner”. We talked about agile and why it is necessary. Read more here on the blog or watch the video:
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Why are you still buying IT?
Why are you still buying IT? Does it make any sense to keep buying IT when you could buy services that actually do something for you? Could you stop buying IT altogether? No and yes. Thinking that you buy services that help your company meet goals is a big mind…
Sometimes #noestimates can’t help you predict the future
Now that #noestimates has become fairly mainstream, you could wonder how #noestimates can help you predict the future? When I saw that InfoQ included #noestimates as part of their “State of Agile” article for 2014 it was clear to me that #noestimates will continue to be part of our common…
Two recent posts
I’ve recently posted two pieces of content on other platforms:
Should you distrust agile?
Why do some people distrust agile software development? Should you distrust agile software development? How can you possible trust people who say that they will “take your money and deliver something” after a month or so? How can you possible trust people who have a rubber bird as part of…
Software Development Success
[bibshow] Software development success is organization dependent. Which organizations are successful in developing and delivering software? Which projects will be successful? That is a crucial question in an industry with an annual turnover of over 400 billion USD and only a 50% success rate. [bibcite key=”citeulike:4540645″] Is it enough to…
Agile projects requirements breakdown structure
In Agile projects, when a set of requirements are received from Clients, it may consist of (a mix of) A few needs, objectives, goals and some partial stories (even though it would have come in a structured document). Re-organizing (re-arranging) those into a requirements breakdown structure (RBS) helps ask right questions to…