Tag: Agile
18 Sep, 2019
Vertical Value
One of the issues I see a lot out in software product land are teams trying to plan and jam big features or capabilities through their development cycles. Often these are discussed on the order of many weeks or months with multiple, complex, and interrelated projects to complete before...
08 May, 2018
5 Critical Success Factors for Agile Transformations
Last week we hosted a panel discussion on Agile. We had three excellent panelists, Patricia Remacle (SVP Product, Hobsons), Ankur Agarwal (Manager, Scrum Master, Capital One), and Jim York (Coach, Co-Owner, FoxHedge Ltd) who provided an engaging and interesting discussion for and with our audience. In case you couldn’t...
23 Jan, 2018
A Mock Conversation
Have you ever been part of a conversation that goes something like this? Sales We can’t sell the product as is. It has to have this list of features to get customers to buy. We’ve promised these to the customers, but they keep not...
12 Dec, 2017
Learning Cultures: Beyond Agile
“Agile” has dominated the conversational, transformational, and practical aspects of technology development for over a decade now, and its history is littered with failures every bit as grand as the classic waterfall failures that came before. Wasn’t “agile” supposed to be better? To discover the root of the problem,...
10 Jan, 2017
Software vs The Evil Forces of Entropy
Requirements evolve, technology evolves, processes evolve, and users evolve. So why is it that the systems, applications, and their underlying architectures seemingly get built in a way that after a couple iterations of extension, they become brittle and saddled with “technical debt”? More importantly, is there anything that can...
28 Aug, 2015
Evolving in Place
A systematic approach to replacing old technologies and applications with new can save you time and money, improve continuity of operations, and allow you to keep up with your competitors. I often work with clients that have dated technologies and infrastructures, stuff that was modern and based on (mostly) good...
04 May, 2015
On Becoming Agile
A short discourse on some key areas and lessons for those who want to adopt an agile culture.
30 Mar, 2015
Continuous Delivery Continuum
Continuous Delivery exists on a continuum as a constellation of capabilities rather than as a destination
25 Mar, 2015
Create a Competitive Advantage with Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery drives the ability to be flexible and agile, creating competitive advantage.
01 Jul, 2014
Agile Development is Not a Best Practice
Recently I gave a talk to a group of CTOs about Agile development, something the development shops I’ve worked in have been doing one way or another since before Agile got labeled and got its own Manifesto. It was going to be difficult to bring something to this group...