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Why Scrum Won
In the 1990s and early 2000s a number of different lightweight ‘agile’ development methods sprung up. Today a few shops use Extreme Programming, including most notably ThoughtWorks ...
Introduction To Extreme Programming (XP)
This post is an introduction to Extreme Programming (XP), another of the Agile methods for software application implementation. Reading this post is a prerequisite to this post. The ...
Introduction To Scrum
This post is an introduction to Scrum, one of the Agile methods to drive software application implementation. Reading this post is a prerequisite to this post. ConceptsScrum projects ...
Introduction To Agile Principles
This post is a reminder about Agile principles. It is also an introduction for those who want to learn about it. The Agile principles were initially proposed in 2001 in the Manifesto ...
Predictability – Making Promises you can Keep
Speed – being first to market, rapid innovation and conducting fast cheap experiments – is critically important to startups and many high tech firms. This is where Lean Startup ...
My thoughts on Agile
The seeds that you plant at the beginning of an organization’s life influences how the organization grows over time. I think it’s safe to say that you have some macro goals:Predictability: ...
Building Both Security and Quality In
One of the important things in a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is to feed back information about vulnerabilities to developers. This post relates that practice to the Agile practice ...
Transition to Agile, Large Technical Debt, Small Project
Many months ago, Rebecca asked an interesting question about technical debt in projects. She asked, How to start when there’s a really big mess? In that case, small, just being a ...
Using Story Mapping For Defining Business Requiremets
Story mapping is a lightweight and collaborative approach to defining and structuring user requirements. Story mapping involves describing the system as a list of features that provide ...
Use Cases for Iterative Development
Almost everything I’ve read about use cases focuses on describing what needs to be added to your product. Agile development says “get it working first, make it better second.” ...
