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Agile Product Development

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 29, 2010 at 1:19 pm

The Slides from my recent presentation to the BNS on Agile Product Development. Agile Product Development View more presentations from ianburgess.

Mary & Tom Poppendieck – Failure Cost

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 23, 2010 at 5:07 pm

This week I attended a course organised by Lean Data Solution which covered the content of much of the books and helped to refocus some of the practices. … Over the two days we covered several topics: Systems Thinking Technical Excellence Great People Reliable Delivery Relentless Improvement The Journey (change and mental models)

Burndown Charts

Posted by Ian Burgess on February 14, 2010 at 5:22 pm

In a project most of the stake-holders are only interested in the amount of work completed and if things are on track. In a Agile/SCRUM environment the best tool for showing this is the burn down chart. These are extremely simple to create with any Spreadsheet software, I commonly use both Excel and Google Docs [...]

Basic Project Management with a focus on Agile

Posted by Ian Burgess on November 17, 2009 at 10:14 pm

I have been giving this presentation as a introduction to project managment with a focus on introducing companies to the basic concepts of Agile. The presentation is aimed at PM Newbies and explaining agile to the managment teams more than the developers. Agile Project Management View more presentations from ianburgess.

SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes

Posted by Ian Burgess on September 29, 2009 at 10:57 pm

This is possible one of the most concise videos on SCRUM from Hamid Shojaee of Axosoft.

Love this Agile Video

Posted by Ian Burgess on September 17, 2009 at 10:29 am

I just seen this video from “Global IT Consultancy” Thought Works it just made me laugh.

Using User Stories

Posted by Ian Burgess on September 15, 2009 at 11:18 pm

I have used user stories for some time to develop products and am currently using this process in developing several products it is good to be able to outline the process quickly. To do this I use a simple construct and process to help to in-bed this practice. I will quickly go through this proces

Dave Astels – Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

Posted by Ian Burgess on July 23, 2009 at 9:57 pm

This is a video of Dave Astels speaking at Google Tech Talks in March 2006, This is interesting as it focus on Behaviour Driven Development. A subject which I am looking in to more and more and is beginning to have a larger impact on the software projects I am working on. Watch the video [...]

Mary Poppendieck on Software Leadership

Posted by Ian Burgess on July 19, 2009 at 9:24 pm

Mary Poppendieck a well know voice which has influenced software development is known for her books such as “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit” which are fundamental reading for people looking to understand software development from an agile perspective. I found this presentation to Google Tech Talk where Mary Poppendieck talks about the role of [...]

Product Steering Groups – Integrating Developers and Customers

Posted by Ian Burgess on July 16, 2009 at 11:32 pm

Had a long day at the end meet up with Fellow IBC member Brendan Walsh when among many things we ended up discussing the culture that exist with in software companies and the internal value sets that grow up around that. Brendan has worked in training and the development of client focused cultures for a [...]