Category Archives: Agile

Stop Doing Agile

By Benjamin | Published: November 10, 2010
I mentioned some time back that where I work we do Agile software development. This phrase, though accurate in some sense, shows a certain misunderstanding of what Agile is. Sure, you might ‘do’ Scrum, or ‘practice’ XP or Kanban or Lean or whatever, but you don’t ‘do’ Agile. You adopt these processes as a starting [...]
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The Agile Analyst

By Benjamin | Published: October 28, 2010
Traditional software development has many roles – architects, systems analysts, quality assurance, developers, project managers, the list goes on. Agile development doesn’t define nearly as many roles, simply that teams are cross-functional groups of five to nine people with some type of facilitator role. Most Agile variants assume that most of the team will act [...]
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Enterprise Viscosity

By Benjamin | Published: August 26, 2010
Agile software development includes a set of terms which convey the forward progress of team. These include concepts like ‘Velocity’ and ‘Burndown’. One day, quite by accident, I was saying something witty or sarcastic and introduced the phrase Enterprise Viscosity. While I don’t advocate making it an official part of any parlance, it’s a useful [...]
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On Agile

By Benjamin | Published: August 16, 2010
Read the Fine Print As with many organizations these days, my company does Agile software development. Ignore for the moment that there is something wrong with that statement (and if you don’t see it, that’s fine, most people don’t). Agile is all the rage currently in software development. If you haven’t heard of Agile methodologies [...]
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