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Agile Product Development

Published on May 29, 2010 By Ian Burgess

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

Published on May 23, 2010 By Ian Burgess

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

Published on February 14, 2010 By Ian Burgess

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

Published on November 17, 2009 By Ian Burgess

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.

Pair Programming- Software Development Learning Steps

Published on July 11, 2009 By Ian Burgess

The key to building a good software development team is to focus on the development of the staff. In most software teams many learning opportunities are removed to focus on the commercial or time-line of the project. Practices such as the two weekly demo or paired programming are drop to free up more time. Agile [...]

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert development in a safety critical environment

Published on June 27, 2009 By Ian Burgess

Clarke Ching from Agile Scotland invited the members of Agile Scotland to an event in Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems in Edinburgh, the speaker was Nancy Van Shooenderwoert. Nancy has been active in the Agile world for some time and is in many ways a evangelist. The presentation was focused on software development in a safety [...]

Agile Retrospective – Lessons Learned

Published on June 1, 2009 By Ian Burgess

The one phase that is most often neglected in agile development is the retrospective, fulfilling the same role as lessons learned in other methodologies such as Prince2. Only paying lip service to the retrospective will have noticeable effect on the delivery of the project it is in this phase that misunderstandings are outlined and process that [...]

Agile Development in a Commercial Organisation

Published on May 4, 2009 By Ian Burgess

“100 grand spent on half finished software is worth nothing” This statement sums up the problem with conventional long cycle development, In the current commercial environment the ability to change focus and deliver value is more critical than ever. Agile development will allow a company to Having been an advocate of Agile development and project [...]