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Planning Poker
Estimation and planning is an essential part of development, even for agile projects. We have all seen lots of worthless plans, that many in fact that we are tempted to throw planning out altogether....
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Meet us at Agile 2007
We're off to Agile 2007 next week where I will be hosting a Discovery Session on how to go about implementing agile practises. It is called "Corporate Judo - Guerilla Tactics for Agile Transition". If...
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Impressions From Agile 2007 - Day 1
Finally, the biggest agile event of the year is under way! We have a big Danish delegation here this year - other than Ative we have met people from Bankdata, BRFkredit, GoAgile, BestBrains, NDS,...
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Impressions From Agile 2007 - Day Two
Dave Thomas told about his experience with large-scale agile projects. His take on plans:The Plan is really just The Best Wrong AnswerHaving said that however, he also noted that he had a very good...
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Corporate Judo - Guerilla Tactics For Agile Transformation - Agile 2007 Day...
Today, we did a Discovery Session at Agile 2007. The topic? How do we implement agile. We worked in five teams that each created a roadmap for implementing agile based on their experience and their...
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Implementing Scrum in the Enterprise - Agile 2007 Day Four
Ken Schwaber has been working on enterprise-wide Scrum implementations recently. In his session today he shared his experiences and offered a roadmap for the process. First off all there is no...
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Bye, bye, "Done, but" - The Flat Organisation and Enterprise Scrum
Lean organisations tend to be very flat with few layers of management. They rely on self-organisation and leadership. In this context, then, what is the role of the middle layers in the organisation?...
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Jaoo 2007
We're off to Jaoo 2007 next week. We are bringing some poker planning cards and some "I O Scrum" t-shirts, please give us a hint if you are interested.Every day we will post a summery from the sessions...
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The TDD Controversy - JAOO 2007
TDD will ruin your architecture! When Jim Coplien said this in his presentation about Scrum and Architecture at the JAOO 2007 conference he really got people's attention. His statement sparked one of...
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JAOO 2007 - Uncle Bob, Agile on the Mainframe, Jazz and Intentional Software
Robert C. Martin did the opening keynote with the title “Clean Code II – Craftsmanship and Ethics”. As always Uncle Bob is an inspiring speaker and the keynote was a good kick start of the conference –...
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Variation And Waste - The Case for Frequent Delivery
Imagine you are in an organisation with a one-year release cycle and you miss your annual deadline by one minute. The cost? A one-year delay.Now, try to invent a control system to ensure that we avoid...
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Scrum Gathering, Fall 2007 – Open space
The Open space on the last day (Friday) of the Scrum Gathering 2007 offered many interesting sessions and discussions. Two of these sessions were: “Product Owner practices – prioritizing backlog items...
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Beyond The Valley Of Tears
Sabine Canditt of Siemens showed an interesting curve for Scrum implementation in her excellent ScrumGathering presentation in London recently. It shows how introducing the Scrum initially creates...
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What's Your Favourite Lean Books?
People often ask me about recommendations for the must-read books for lean and agile software development.Here is a list of some of my favourite lean books: W. Edwards Deming - the grand old man of the...
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Learning TPS from Toyota in Nagoya
One of the high points of my recent Japan excursion was visiting the Toyota factory in Nagoya. We did a factory tour and meet with Keiichi Fukunaga, the manager of Toyota's department for teaching the...
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How to Improve Your Development Process Using Factory Physics
There are only three types of buffers: extra capacity, extra inventory and extra time. This is one of the great take-aways from Factory Physics that I have frequently quoted since Thomas Blomseth...
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The 14 Most Common Project Management Mistakes of and How To Avoid Them
The Danish Computerworld magazine had a few pages on the 14 most common mistakes of project management recently. It is very illuminating to see how agile practices target these mistakes and help avoid...
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Out of the Crisis - Deming's 14 Points
In a time where so many are excusing their failure with externalities and saying "it's the crisis" we need leadership and entrepreneurship more than ever. We are in a time of creative destruction and...
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Improve your IT-organisation with Deming's 14 points
I have written an introduction to Deming's 14 points and how they can help you improve your IT-organisation. It is a 15-page PDF in Danish. You can download it here: Ud af krisen -...
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New Lean Reading List: Shingo Prize Winners Announced
The recipient's of this year's Shingo Prize have been announced. The Research and Professional Publication Prize category is a great reading list for new lean books:Steven Spear - Chasing the Rabbit. A...
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What is a Truly Lean Company? - Deming Distilled
Deming's work is the foundation of the Toyota Production System and modern-day lean. I recently conducted a workshop his 14 points for management. One exercise was to group them to get to their...
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Reboot Your Management
How would you rebuild a country after a world war? How would you reboot your management?This was the topic for my presentation at the Reboot conference.It concerned Deming's 14 principles for...
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How Scrum Reduces Rework
I was talking to a group of project managers today in one of our inspiration meetings. One of the inspiring questions that came up was related to why we should use Scrum or agile methods.One short...
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Tweetable Code - Introducing Docjure for Succintly Reading and Writing...
How would you like to be able to SMS or tweet your Excel data-crunching code?With Docjure, it is possible: (->> (load-workbook "spreadsheet.xlsx") (select-sheet "Price List") (select-columns {:A...
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Good Project, Bad Project
The secret to writing good automated tests is to be a good software designer.It sounds trivial - but the sad fact is that more often than not the attempt to implement test automation falls due to poor...
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