I was asked a hypothetical question: If someone caused a major failure to the business, would that be a reason to fire her. I said no, because: It is unlikely that a single individual can actually be the only accountable person in such a scenario. If the error wasn’t malicious, that makes the failure a combination of judgmental
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to present at DevGeekWeek. But I do have a slide deck I’ve prepared for it. It was supposed to be presented at the Application Life-cycle Managemenet (ALM) track. And since, we’re dealing with experimentation, let’s use the deck for an experiment: Would you like to attend a webinar about this? Let me know
A few years back I’ve read The Goal. It was quite late in my agile life, so it wasn’t that eye opener everybody was talking about. It made sense, because I could compare my experience with software projects with the process of learning described in the book. Still, the book was about manufacturing. So I
Are your daily meetings effective? When you ask what people want from daily meetings, the answer is that they’d be short. Or Shorter. These answers usually come from people who suffer from long meetings and many other meetings in general. They want to just get back to their work. However, focusing on the length of
You’ve probably heard that a start-up’s chance of success is very low. There are many factors of why that happens. I want to illustrate this through the waterfall process that plagues many companies,. Waterfall, the root of all evil? Wasn’t it killed by agile? We’ll see. The process we’re talking about looks like this: Vision
A while back, when I wore my product hat, I started referring to the product backlog as an option backlog. We had lots of ideas going in there, but they were basically stories that we didn’t commit to implementing. Instead, we could pick from our options based on our understanding of the market, our capabilities
If business analysis is where we come up with ideas, then product development process is the factory that makes the vision real. What did we take from agile and how is it different today from 15 years ago? The magic word of today is SCALE. And the king of Scaled Agile is SAFe. I’ve already
We describe MVP as a minimal viable product, and sometimes we turn the definition into minimal marketable product. Regardless of how you look at it, it’s a product that gets attention, if not money. The MVP can be a first stop in the life of a product. It can also be the last one –
Since this is my blog, I get to showcase things I’ve also written outside it. Don’t worry, it doesn’t mind. Of course, I’m keeping a list of (almost) everything I’ve written under the Publications page. But here are my latest. On the Typemock blog: My first TDD experience A brief history of continuous integration Icy
My new article on Agile Connection is live. It’s about co-location, which is a basic agile premise. And how it can be broken and mended very easily. Read it here.