Archive of Agile
Story Maps and SpecLog (Story Maps part 3)
Story maps were an often mentioned conceptual tool at the Agile and BDD one day mini conference of 7 sessions in one location. See skillsmatter for the program and podcasts of the sessions.There were some great talks covering topics from business analysis through TDD to why developers and testers are…
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Recommendations from inside an Agile UX environment
One year ago I joined Caplin as a UX designer. It was my first experience working on a true Agile environment and it took me some time getting used to, but I believe it can be done. The list below collects a few observations from working on Agile projects over…
Read MoreIssues with Story Maps (Story Maps part 2)
Click here for Part 1: Stories & Story Maps There are two challenges with story maps that we seem to continually face: 1. Physicality: Story maps work best when you have a lot of physical space to lay them out. E.g. on a big wall, or a large floor. The…
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Caplin to host an Agile UX Safari!
The Agile UX Meetup Group is heading to Caplin! Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:30 PM Caplin will be hosting an “Agile UX Safari” in a couple of weeks. It will be a little different to the last one at MindCandy (we don’t have a tree house in our boardroom!) but…
Read MoreStories and Story Maps (Story Maps part 1)
Here at Caplin we use and are constantly evaluating Agile practices and techniques that make software development and maintenance as efficient as possible. In particular to the practice of BDD, which ‘utilises stories as it’s basic unit of functionality’ according to Dan North (http://dannorth.net/whats-in-a-story/). Even if there is an existing…
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The 50 Commandments of software development
Many years ago I worked for a small software house, Teleca. This was well before the terms “lean” or “agile” were in common use in a software development context. Teleca’s founder, Paul Sherwood, shunned formal systems like iso9001 and instead we were guided by The Teleca Commandments, a set of…
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Incremental development applied to the built environment
Agile development comes in various forms and flavours. Each workplace does it differently; some do four-week iterations, others two-week sprints; some use scrum, others xp, and then most will just improvise and make up their own rules – or as Alistair Cockburn, one of the Agile Manifesto writers talks about…
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2 Minutes: Steve Morgan
Steve Morgan joined Caplin as Development Manager in August 2010 Q: Steve, welcome to Caplin. Where have you joined us from? A: I was with Qualcomm for nearly 5 years. It’s a big US telecom firm that’s not well known in Europe – but chances are you’ve got Qualcomm technology…
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