Iteration Zero - the first iteration
There has been quite a lot of commentary on various social media channels about agile ceremonies and the traps that they often pose to enterprises. if not taken in the context of the value that they …
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Team Distribution Models and Conways Law
If Conway’s law applies the how we set up and organise teams should either be aligned to the architecture of the applicaiton or system being developed or application/system architecture will …
AgileDC - Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Yesterday I presented a talk entitled Introduction to Continuous Delivery at AgileDC. The audience was great and the room packed which is always a recipe for success. I really enjoyed talking about …
Stabilizing Velocity
I came across this post by Michael Norton and thought I would reference it here: Stabilising Velocity Michael makes some keen observations on both causes and effects of unstable velocity. Predictable …
Agile Software Development and Golf
 Faced with the question ‘What do you do?’ from family and friends is more challenging than it should be. Most other …
XP and the cost of change
I have found myself drawing the classic cost of change graph a few times recently so thought I would blog about it. The graph was popular a few year ago in explaining the differences between and …
Agile East WebTDD
On Thursday this week I will presenting a talk entitled ‘WebTDD’ at the ThoughtWorks Agile East conference in Conshohocken PA. It is the first outing for this talk and I have been working …
Ultimate agility?
The truly amazing Dan Osman This has got to be one of the ultimate demonstrations of agility, confidence and poise....