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Software: The last hand-made thing
“Collector” is probably too generous a word, but I am definitely an aficionado of handcrafted items. While true hand craftsmanship has become rare and generally prohibitively expensive in the West, I’m fortunate that I get to travel to places where hand-made items are still relatively affordable. Over the years I’ve managed to accumulate artwork, metal-craft, [...]
Continue reading...Scrum and Innovation, Part II
24. August 2009, by Jim Walsh
Series: “Scrum and the Copernican Revolution” Does the Agile / Scrum software development paradigm encourage innovation, or discourage it? We continue to explore this topic in part II of our little fantasy. As you’ll recall from part I, we are imagining that the Copernican revolution in Astronomy happened during the course of a Scrum-driven effort to [...]
Continue reading...If you haven’t suffered, you’re not using Agile
29. July 2009, by Jim Walsh
It used to be a common cliché that an artist could not be truly “great” unless he or she had “suffered”. I suppose this expression has fallen into disuse because there are many examples of great artists who enjoyed happy childhoods, were rewarded with early success and a reasonable degree of material prosperity, and who [...]
Continue reading...Scrum and Innovation, Part I
3. July 2009, by Jim Walsh
Series: “Scrum and the Copernican Revolution” Does the Agile / Scrum software development paradigm encourage innovation, or discourage it? Agile / Scrum is a highly disciplined approach when implemented correctly, so this is a question that could go either way. My answer: the methodology is neutral, and can be used to encourage or discourage innovation. If [...]
Continue reading...Prioritization and the Connected Leader
15. May 2009, by Luke Hohmann
Project portfolio prioritization is a tough job. Even when times are good, you can’t undertake every project. When times are bad, you not only have to take on fewer new projects, you have to revaluate your portfolio and stop ongoing projects. Stopping projects, in turn, is a part of common sense portfolio management. Whether you practice [...]
Continue reading...Distribute the team? Distribute the pain!
14. April 2009, by Luke Hohmann
We’re seeing an increasing number of clients with distributed Agile development teams. Although this runs somewhat counter to simplistic views of Agile development practices, which focus on co-located teams, it is a much more realistic reflection of actual global development practices. Global, agile teams are here to stay. As a result, we need to extend [...]
Continue reading...Aligning Compensation is Harder Than Aligning Goals
12. March 2009, by Luke Hohmann
One of the well-known virtues of Agile development is the focus on frequently delivering valuable, working software to our customers. In practice, this results in the establishment of a variety of well-defined goals at all layers of the planning flame. We have roadmaps that identify goals beyond the current release, release themes that align and [...]
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25. November 2009, by Jim Walsh
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