Archive of Agile
Kanban exposes documentation bottlenecks
Back in November I blogged about our company trialing Kanban, “Let’s all jump on the Kanban” which we have now extended to our Documentation Team – something described by David Joyce as BBC Kanban Flu. We kind of knew what was really delaying the release of documentation but it’s not…
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Agile Software Development – One Size Doesn’t Fit All
As I mentioned in part I of this series, Adoption of Agile at Caplin, when we first started following an agile methodology (in our case Scrum) in February 2005 we were desperate to implement it successfully and wanted to adhere to all of the best practices. We persevered with this…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28
Hi, this is @martintyler, I am Chief Software Architect at Caplin and will be tweeting this week from CaplinTech # Flex 4 is out, which includes Flash Builder 4 – http://bit.ly/98iERz #ria # This is @detyro signing off CaplinTech @martintyler is up next and is already atweetin’ – expect lots…
Read MoreAgile Software Development – Adoption of Agile at Caplin
Back in January 2005 I had been married for a month and was looking forward to taking a belated honeymoon in March. As you would expect, these were significant life events, however little did I realise that something of a similar magnitude was also looming on the horizon of my…
Read MoreTwitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21
Thanks @ian_alderson for being the World’s No.1 #VeryBestEver @CaplinTech guest tweeter!! ~ you leave me with a big hole to fill # OK an intro: as well as #RIA and #real timeTech, I’ll sneak in some tweets on #UX #typography, #infoDesign and #infovis ~ br Duncan # http://bit.ly/9OtLYN Vodafone Mclaren…
Read MoreImprecise Accuracy is better than Precise Inaccuracy
Last week I blogged about how an estimate is not a guarantee. A small, but important, omission from that post was the distinction between an accurate estimate and a precise estimate. Frequently accuracy and precision seem to be considered the same thing. The critical difference was highlighted when I went…
Read MoreTwitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28
RT @patrickmyles: Google’s newly proposed SPDY protocol could be interesting 4 realtime finance webapps, if adopted – http://bit.ly/AAR95 # RT @jurgenappelo: Scaling Lean & Agile Development, by Craig Larman and @basvodde, is great! http://bit.ly/bCMoQK #yam # RT @elijahmanor: “Intro Reactive Extensions for JavaScript: Creating Observables” by @mattpodwysocki #tech #javascript http://j.mp/aI8twY…
Read MoreAn Estimate is not a Guarantee
The statement that an estimate is not a guarantee might sound obvious but it often feels anything but. Over the years I have frequently heard managers complain that something has taken longer than was anticipated and have been told to improve the estimates. Of course at times the estimates have…
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