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Focus in Chaos: Why I Like Kanban for Startups
It’s okay if you don’t know exactly where you’re going – because things are always changing – just so long as you’re focused on the Right Things. BUT, this is really hard ...
Kanban is the New Scrum
Maybe it’s all the time I spend with startups, but while I strongly value Scrum’s ideas behind self-organizing teams & continual feedback – I can’t help but feel Kanban ...
Are We Agile Yet?
I read somewhere that a large number of software teams think they’re Agile because they do Daily Scrums. Now I don’t like to get religious, and I certainly don’t believe you have ...
5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project FAIL
Far too many Agile development projects fail. It is hard to even accurately measure the number of failures because so many software development projects end up “complete” and shipped, ...
Agile Scenarios and Storyboards
User stories are great at capturing product functionality. But they are less suited to describe the user interaction in more detail. This is where scenarios and storyboards come into ...
To estimate or not to estimate, that is the question
Disparaging those who provide software estimates seems to be a growing sport. At conferences, in blogs and the twitter-verse it seems open season for anyone who dares to suggest a software ...
Requirements and Specifications
As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” which I should just have entitled ...
Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics
Product planning is just as important in an agile context as it is in a traditional setting. Unfortunately, some product owners focus so much on the product details and the tactical ...
Telecommuting, Hoteling, and Managing Product Development
There are two sides of this conversation about telecommuting: the employee side and the management side. I hope you stick around for both sides. You can yell at me at the end. Employees: ...
The Three Layers of Management
We’ve always made project management an important and inseparable part of our development and design services. When Atomic Object was younger, we would tend to focus on the technical ...
