The easiest way to save money and time building software products is to only build things that are absolutely essential. More features and frameworks means more code to write, more code to test and more code to go wrong. The… Read More
Is the Product Owner an Anti-Pattern
The role of Product Owner was first defined as part of the Scrum agile product development method. The current definition says – “a Scrum Product Owner is responsible for maximising the value of the product resulting from the work of… Read More
A Humane Approach to Organisational Change
Organisational change is seldom popular. However all organisations exist in a changing world and must constantly change and adapt to what’s around them and the market conditions that prevail. How an organisation adopts change preoccupies many management teams and whether their… Read More
Ideas on How to Split User Stories
Breaking large user stories (or work items in layman’s terms) down into several smaller ones hugely improves delivery predictability. There are several reasons for this including the fact that smaller items with fewer moving parts are simply easier to estimate… Read More
Agile Telemetry, Doing Data Driven Product Development like a Formula 1 Team
Building a software product requires thousands of design decisions to be made and making those decisions quickly will significantly reduce the time to market. Getting things shipped quickly can significantly reduce commercial risks through gaining early feedback. But making these… Read More
TDD or Test Driven Development Explained
TDD or Test Driven Development is something that’s easy to talk about but harder to do and a lot harder to do well and get value from. Done with good judgement TDD can help produce excellent quality code that is… Read More
Lean Agile Principles Deconstructed
Lean / agile software development ideas are essentially modern management methods that take a sideways view at how things can be done. Mostly the ideas within the lean / agile body of knowledge are rooted in system theory and build… Read More
Agile Business Analysis Using the Three Amigos
Good outcomes when building software features is strongly connected to having the right insight and information at the right time to help form a consensus on what to actually build. The problem with traditional requirements documents is that they typically… Read More
Delivering Value in Software Projects
Features in business software typically make things quicker and less costly to do or sometimes less error prone or more accurately. For this reason the sooner features are deployed, the sooner they can be used and return their cost of… Read More
Development Agility May Not Mean a Formal Agile Transformation
Change within organisations is not normally easy to achieve and it’s even hard to make changes stick. The book sellers are full of change management publications advising on ways to achieve organisational transformation. But working in new ways doesn’t have… Read More