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Below is a MVP presentation for the inaugural Lean Startup Meetup in San Francisco by Eric Ries. It is a must watch if you are interested in building successful products. Eric starts with a question: Why do we build products? The lean startup is about creating...
I could not believe what I have just found! My OOPSLA 2000 conference badge. It was on a folder with some old USA documents. Uau, and only a few weeks ago I posted a blog post about a preface where I mention OOPSLA 2000 on it. It was my first talk on an international...
On the past year, I worked on a bank and influenced the contract change to accept function points and agile delivery. Instead of trying to match FP directly to story points, we used a triangulation via MVPs. All focus goes into the MVP and what goes into the MVP....
The meeting burn-down agenda is a visual mechanism to help tracking a meetign progress. The agenda presents the meeting topics as bullet points. The meeting timeline (from the beginning to the end) is displayed as an arrow next to the meeting bullet points. A pink...
What?! Two people programming on the same computer? Are you crazy?! This is what came to my mind in 2001 when I first read Kent Beck´s eXtreme Programing explained book. Years later, it feels weird when I walk by an agile development team and don't see two people...
If you estimate, dates are written in stone. If you commit, the build is broken. If you innovate, the plan is not being followed. If you pair, a resource is being wasted. If you speak up, the alignment is at risk. If you refactor, new functionality is delayed. Don't...