Agile Product Development

By On May 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Agile, Diary, Project Management, Software Development

The Slides from my recent presentation to the BNS on Agile Product Development.

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Mary & Tom Poppendieck – Failure Cost

By On May 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Agile, Lean, Project Management, Software Development

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)

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Burndown Charts

By On February 14, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Agile, Communications Management, IT Project Management

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 [...]

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Basic Project Management with a focus on Agile

By On November 17, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Agile, Project Management

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.

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SCRUM in Under 10 Minutes

By On September 29, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Agile

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

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Love this Agile Video

By On September 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Agile, Diary

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

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Using User Stories

By On September 15, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Agile, Best Practice, Project Management, Software Development

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

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Dave Astels – Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development

By On July 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Agile, Best Practice

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 [...]

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Mary Poppendieck on Software Leadership

By On July 19, 2009 · 7 Comments · In Agile, Best Practice, Project Management, Software Development

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 [...]

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Product Steering Groups – Integrating Developers and Customers

By On July 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Agile, Best Practice, Diary, Software Development

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 [...]

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