In a pull system the workers pull in new work when they have capacity. They know what is on their plate and they manage and organise to cope. They make judgment calls when business priorities compete with engineering risks. Of… Read More
What is a Pull System and Why Should I Care?
The concept of a pull system is a simple but important one for software teams. Many teams I see struggling have problems rooted in the push nature of their environment. A pull system reacts to customer demand and worker throughput.… Read More
What is an Agile Software Team Anyway?
There are a few questions I get asked in convoluted form. This is one of them. In this safe haven I’ll try to explain what an agile software team is in the most straightforward way I can. Aiming this at customers,… Read More
ASP.NET MVC on Ubuntu with NGINX
We’ve just published an early working version of an on-line service created by NewRedo, however, although written in ASP.NET MVC 2, it’s not running on a Microsoft server. Instead we’re running on Ubuntu 11.10 using the NGINX web server. First,… Read More