Wednesday, August 27, 2014

To Be Certified – Or Not?

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Recently in the LinkedIn group “Agile”, Alan Moran posted a question, “ How valuable is agile certification to you? ” The general consensus...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Why private offices are important for programmers

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Around the year 2000, the company that I had co-founded in 1995, Digital Focus, went agile. We adopted eXtreme Programming (XP). We therefor...
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...