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I come to believe that most product development environments and processes are just to damn confusing. Not by nature, but manmade. Let's look at bug tracking. I've spent too many hours of my live with QA and product managers to prioritize a list of bugs. P1,...
I had the pleasure to work on a very large programme of work for the past two years and I witnessed how programme has changed its structure for handling bugs. Therefore I am sharing such result on this blog post. Very Large Agile project – year 1 200 engineers (Devs...
Lean thinking by Toyota says that managers must go and experience at the real place of work (gemba in Japanese) to learn what is going on. In the manufacturing field, gemba means the shop floor. When trying to apply Lean Thinking into my Agile management style, I feel...
September 15 2009, Ken Schwaber and Jim Cundiff resigned from the Board of Directors of the Scrum Alliance. Below is an excerpt of the messageMessage from the Board of Directors On September 15, Ken Schwaber resigned as President and Chair of the Board of Directors of...
Billy (below) is a known old bug. Old enough that it got a name and is well known to the development team. Bugs, or defects in your software, are not to be treated as pets! Make sure you close bugs fast. Do not get used to bugs. Agile software development (as...
Since I bought my first e-reader (Amazon Kindle 1), I have reduced the number of printed reading material I carry around. Instead I have been carrying my kindle, which is full of reading content.Today I was reading ThoughtBlogs in a café. I was off-line, away from my...