About: Akbar Zamir

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http://blog.softwarekaizen.com/

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I began working in software development around 1990, and have worked for in-house IT departments, software product vendors, and software services companies. My initial exposure to iterative software development was with the Unified Process around 1999, which I saw applied in ways both useful and … less so. I work for Valtech in London, where my focus over the last few years has been on leading software development teams working on bespoke solutions. I also advise teams seeking to apply agile methods (hopefully in order to succeed, rather than for its own sake).

Posts by Akbar Zamir:

Last week’s Brown Bag: Project inception phase within agile software development

  Last Friday, David offered us an overview of the project inception phase within agile software development. David began by establishing the context of business-owned incremental delivery: business-owned, because the value proposition is determined by stakeholders outside IT; incremental, because there are often commercial opportunities to exploit by delivering ‘smaller and sooner’. When dealing with [...]

Last week’s Brown Bag: HTML5 ebook frameworks for iOS

A very belated thanks to Henry for giving us a glimpse into the world of eBook development last Friday. Using XCode – to the horror/incomprehension of some more conservative developers in the room – Henry ran through an example of building content using the open source Baker framework, while also drawing our attention to a [...]

Inspect and Adapt: Close the Loop!

This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant Akbar Zamir.

‘Inspect and adapt’ is a well-worn phrase amongst agile software practitioners. One object of inspection is the software that is delivered periodically – and frequently, if agile principles are applied.The diagram below shows a simple model of feature …