Friday, November 29, 2013

Are agilists turning their backs on the very technologies that their clients are building?

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I remember three decades ago standing in the bookstore of my university reading sections in a new - and first ever - textbook about the desi...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

The Emperor has no clothes: Verbal communication is NOT more effective than written communication

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It is not true that people communicate better in person that in writing. The preference for face to face meeting over written communicatio...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Does devops change security practices?

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Security is still the elephant in the agile room - or should I say the fly in the ointment. Agile people and business people like to think...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Agile is a business thing - not just an IT thing

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Business people think that agile is an IT thing. But really, it is a business thing. Because the decision to "do agile" cannot b...

Don't use frameworks (like SAFe) out of the box (continued)

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In my prior post I promised to provide an example of how SAFe is best thought of as a model rather than as a design: a model is a tool for t...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Don't use frameworks (like SAFe) out of the box

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Is there a "template" for life? Can you directly implement the advice your mother and father gave you? Or was the advice intende...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Does agile encourage bad behavior?

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All agile coaches are familiar with projects that “do agile” but don’t really do it. Agile can be used as a license to not plan (throw out ...