There is a part one to this series. The format of a story Ron Jeffries one of the founders of Extreme Programming (XP) created the concept of the three C’s. These are Card, Conversation and Confirmation. Card A “Card” (or often a Post-It note), a physical token giving tangible and durable form to what would …
Stories and their part in scaling agility Commonly known as Backlog Items, User Stories, Work Items and just Stories, are the building block for the development team to drive the work they do and align the Product Owner and the Team in building the right thing. The Story has been very well documented and anyone …
Many of you may have heard of the Disciplined Agile Framework (DA) created by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines but many have not realised the Architectural input this framework gives us for putting architecture back on the Agile roadmap. Agile has forgotten Architecture? In many respects the discipline of Architecture has been at best missed …
Architecting an Agile solution with help from Disciplined Agile Read More »
It is 1998, it is my first day as lead developer at a major corporate and I don’t have a computer. I sit at my empty desk and my very enthusiastic boss tells me I need to give him my dream spec for my machine, a list of any software I want and what books …
Adventures with Agile is very fortunate and proud to host a 3 day highly-participative course given by Craig Larman in Central London which will result in attendees becoming Certified LeSS Practitioners. Every attendee will also receive the latest LeSS book written by Craig and Bas. LeSS is also supported by the Scrum Alliance – the world’s most established …
Craig Larman – 3 day course – LeSS for Practitioners Read More »
This time of year is always associated with looking back over the year and looking forward to the next. I hope the bit in between we can look at the now and enjoy being with family and taking some time out to enjoy the moment. It is important to remember we are human-beings, not human-doings. …
I’m looking forward to looking back on all of this.. Read More »
I spent a considerable part of this morning watching a team of fisherman haul in last night’s catch, spread their nets out on the beach, examine them, repair them and then fold them back into their boat on the shore. This happens every day. Why is this interesting, other than that is something I don’t …
Yesterday, we held the 2nd Adventures with Agile event and it was another huge success. John Coleman flew over from Ireland to give the presentation and a huge thanks is in order to him for this, and for presenting and running the workshop. I was slightly disappointed in the number of people who said they …
AWA event – John Coleman – 25th November 2014 – Practical session Read More »
Whilst building an Agile framework for a client, I came across the term ‘early life support’. I’ve done a fair amount of delivery in my career but not heard this term. It comes from ITIL and means that you must have a documented process for support from the development team for the first X number …
With a wide range of Agile frameworks, models, tools, practices, values and principles to choose from and a highly complex organisation full of existing culture with its own values, prejudices and expertise, it can be hard to know where to start with a large scale Agile transformation. Starting with a two person audit to: understand …
