Lean Transformation

As a new theme to my blog, each week I will be pulling out one of the LEAN practice cards to talk about and discuss some of the concepts be...

Over the last couple of months several clients of the firm I work for have stated that agile software delivery was not suitable to a particu...

Way to often I encounter both my colleagues and clients spending way to much effort and stock in building the uber estimation toolkit. I...

There are many aspects to look at when one is trying to define or describe the architectural elements of a system. -application architecture...

While I think planning poker is an excellent way to estimate any software delivery work, I've noticed that actual development work is so...

a couple of weeks ago Jeff langr and Tim Ottinger asked the public at large to contribute a couple more ideas for agile flashcards onto thei...

a colleague of mine has suggested a new approach towards getting delivery teams to improve the way that they do their work. It's called ...

A couple of weeks back, I was invited to speak at the Rational Software Conference 2009 . I had the pleasure to to take part at the Experien...

In a previous post I mentioned how impressed I was by the concept of Agile Flashcards , I started to put together some of my own flashcards ...

I try not to do too many "news message style blogs", ones where all the blogger does is repeat somebody else’s message and hyperli...

The Dangers of Agile Development For my last several posts, I’ve given some fairly philosophical submissions on the benefits of agile , how ...

Domain specific languages (DSLs) are quickly gaining momentum and there is definite interest in how the industry can adopt DSLs in the requi...

this might seem obvious to those of us that actually do TDD, but now we actually have some empirical evidence to back us up... http://www.in...

A pretty good suite of posts are being put together on how to scale up the concept of an agile product owner... I recommend checking it out@...

To be honest, I like to think that I’m pretty good at keeping up with the cutting edge of what developers are doing to improve their effecti...

RUP Principles As I have said before, one of the best parts of RUP is the principles and best practices. Probably the fact that RUP has exp...

In my Previous post I mentioned that the rational unified process is slightly modified can offer good value to large-scale projects, in t...