This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
Agile methods are of clear benefit while our projects are small enough to be delivered by a single small team responsible for the full life-cycle and incorporating all of the various necessary specialisms. As the project size increases we will eventually reach a state where we face a challenge since the team size becomes increasingly
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
Agile practice irrespective of flavour (Scrum Kanban XP …)can often be reduced to: Work in small batches Deliver often Build the most valuable chunk first And it’s the “value” bit that can get us in trouble. How do we determine which is the most valuable bit? Particularly early on in a project we need to
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
I just checked back to see how much I’d written about MMFs (minimum marketable features). This is a technique I use and talk about a lot so I thought I’d written more that I have. I’ll provide here a few of the ways I use MMFs and why I feel that they are so helpful [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
Last week I had the pleasure of running a user story workshop for a group of very experienced folk with a broad range of backgrounds and skill sets. We convened the workshop to discuss the challenges that present themselves when we apply user stories for the first time on a real project. The conversation was [...]
The slides for this session are now available for download On Thursday Gary Jones will be talking about Agile Business Analysis techniques in E-3 at 13:30. This post brings together some of the resources he will be referring to and other related references. If you have a favourite resource for other BA techniques please [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
Agile practice irrespective of flavour (Scrum Kanban XP …)can often be reduced to: Work in small batches Deliver often Build the most valuable chunk first And it’s the “value” bit that can get us in trouble. How do we determine which is the most valuable bit? Particularly early on in a project we need to [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
Thanks to Rachel Davies for sharing her approach to constructing a diagram of effects.
Rachel proposes that the diagram of effects can trigger a team to discuss how a variety of issues relate and goes on to highlight advice from Bas Vodde and Craig Larman in their first book “Scaling Lean and Agile Development”, the First [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
In a recent post Karl Scotland drew my attention to this post by Craig Dickson on Agile DZone. Karl and Craig differ on their approach (when working with Scrum) to prioritisation of stories by the product owner within a sprint.
Craig has a valid concern that we might loose sight of our Sprint commitment if we [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
I was recently asked to help a client kick-off development of a new product. This was to be their first “agile” project so the kick-off had to set the scene for the collaborative development approach that was to follow.
I used a variety of tools and techniques to bring the project to life. As is usually [...]
This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.
Take-away #3 from David Anderson’s Kanban Coaching workshop.
A discussion of Kanban can only go on for so long before the subject of the Theory of Constraints comes up. In this post I’ll try to explain just enough to show this connection.
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