Tag: Agile

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

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 ...Read More

Last month Emin Tatosian posted an article about agile team-board layouts in which he showcases one of our more successful board designs. It's fair to say that we don't always get it right first time, so I thought I'd ...Read More

At times it seems that the philosophy of agile software development is at odds with that of framework development. Given the amount of print and web space dedicated to agile methodologies, it's incredible how little is dedicated to this topic. It's almost as ...Read More

As a team lead, the first time I was tasked with preparing a team-board, I set out to learn from how others had laid out theirs first. I started with a study of various layouts in our office and then searched the web ...Read More

We have been using agile methods - a typical mix of Scrum and XP - for some years now at Caplin. Though all of us have had some level of formal training and many years of experience in agile techniques, ...Read More

The SPA conference is always a great event with lots of interesting sessions and a good mix of people in attendence. Following a succesful session that Andrew MacLeod and I ran at last year's conference (building an automated ...Read More

Caplin Systems has been building pioneering real-time web technology for financial markets since 2000. During this time we've come up with a lot of very clever solutions to very difficult problems across a broad range of technologies and problem domains. ...Read More