Independent Software Consultant
Independent Software Consultant
Agile methodologies include Scrum, Kanban, Lean – ways of breaking up complex work into smaller chunks and iterating quickly to ensure that customers receive value (typically) from software development practice. A way of working for both product management and development.
or where did my issues go? It’s the tool we all love to hate. But it’s good to occasionally acknowledge how important Jira (or Azure DevOps or wherever you store your backlog) can be when it comes to effectively delivering better software. Why? Because it sits at the heart of everything we do and effectively …
When Barbara Streisand tried to cover up the fact that her Malibu beach front property was falling into the sea, she got it so wrong that they named an effect after her. When I heard that Scaled Agile, the company behind the Scaled Agile Framework (SaFE) issued a DCMA takedown notice on a medium post …
Everybody’s Agile. Why do you want to be Agile? Because it’s the cool, new thing right!? Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Agile is not new. Agile is now a problem for most companies on all scales. Don’t take my word for it, just ask them. However, before …
Yesterday I caught up with an interesting and wide ranging discussion between Dave Farley and Allen Holub about “Agile & Scrum – what doesn’t work”. I find the title of the episode slightly surprising. In the age of “what can we take away from this” I would expect it to be “what does and what …