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Spirit of Waterfall
24 June 09 09:34 AM | Anonymous | 1 comment(s)
It is not uncommon for me to see on blog posts, newsgroups, or presentations the phrase or comment that something is not, "in the spirit of Agile". In fact a project team could be doing many of the practices of Agile but, if it fails, the agilist will claim that the project was not Agile in...
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Watching Agile Grow Up
03 March 09 02:24 PM | Anonymous | 1 comment(s)
Is Agile, which was baby a few years ago, growing up to be just another moody development adolescent on the way to becoming a ho-hum mainstream adult? One of the fascinating (or darn scary) aspects of having children is watching them grow up. As they take on more and more decision making on their own...
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B*tch'n and Moen
23 April 08 05:50 AM | Anonymous | 3 comment(s)
Steve McConnell put up a post on his lack of a real estimate for a child's fort and how that was related to a software project. I have a similar example of an agile bathroom remodel. The Story Our existing bathroom had a small problem. Water was leaking through cracks somewhere in the older tile...
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Agile Complexity
09 March 08 03:09 PM | Anonymous | with no comments
A couple of posts ago, I shared a concern with distributed agile development. A similar thing happened to me recently with another question from two different clients who work on a highly complex mobile operating system. "Can you be agile in highly complex environment with emergent system characteristics...
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Distributed Agile
21 January 08 10:30 PM | Anonymous | 3 comment(s)
I had an interesting discussion recently with two different people about moving toward a more agile development practice. The first was a potential client who had a small team in California. The second was a with the office staff of a services firm who wanted to better understand what agile is all about...
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Context Matters
17 June 07 10:21 AM | Anonymous | with no comments
So, I was driving along, making a right turn into a driveway like I have done a thousand times before. I did what one always does when making a right turn: I checked carefully for pedestrians and watched the driveway to make sure nobody was coming down it. I then signaled my intentions and proceeded...
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PEZ Development
20 May 07 03:41 AM | Anonymous | with no comments
I was teaching an Agile seminar recently when the image of a PEZ candy dispenser popped into my head. Why, PEZ candy, I thought, is just like an Agile project. You work things in priority order by taking what is off the top of the stack of similar sized bits of work. We know that they are similar size...
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I Hate Project Management
24 March 07 09:36 AM | Anonymous | 2 comment(s)
I really do. I mean, all those details you have to keep track of. Everybody coming up and asking you questions like you have some clue about what is really going on. And of course you pretend like you do. "Why, were are three days away from the googoo gate." What I really want to say is, "I...
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