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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Dangers When Adopting Agile
Post by Casey
Sep
26
2006
According to Siddharta Govindaraj, there are five main dangers to be aware of when adopting agile processes: Unfamiliarity Top-down thinking Culture Change Incomplete implementation Silver bullet syndrome Out of the five listed I partially take exception to number one and … Continue reading
Agile Revolution
Post by Casey
Sep
26
2006
Gus Power has an interesting quote about the agility of a team, “Agility of a team is inversely proportional to the number of external people involved.” If this is true, and I think it is, how do you convince the … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes
Tagged best practices, communication, discussion, on-site customer, people, Small Teams
5 Comments
Midwest Blog Aggregator
Post by Casey
Sep
20
2006
Luke Francl over at http://centralstandardtech.com has started a pretty sweet Midwest blog aggregator. You will notice family favorites like Alttext.com (Ben Edwards), Scratch Mount (McClain Looney), Unpossible (Dan Grigsby), Garrickvanburen.com (Garrick Van Buren) and your very own Refactr (The Refactr … Continue reading
Agile’s Dark Side
Post by Jesse O'Neill-Oine
Sep
19
2006
Many of these seem like positives to me, but it’s still worth noting that there are some things you have to be willing to accept if you’re going to go Agile. Most of them are perceived losses due to the … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes
1 Comment
The Appropriate Amount of Time for Discussion
Post by Casey
Sep
18
2006
I have been on too many projects where the discussions went way overboard (many times through my own causing.) It is so easy to fall into the trap of “let’s just discuss it quick” and one hour later still be … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes, Business, Software Development
Tagged best practices, communication, Reduce the plumbing, refactr.com, Web 2.0, writing
1 Comment
Agile FUD?
Post by Jesse O'Neill-Oine
Sep
11
2006
There’s an interesting post over at Clarety Consulting today that seems to be guilty of spreading FUD about Agile development. In the post the author goes through several “real-world” experiences with Agile techniques and explains why the projects failed because … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Processes
3 Comments
On having a mantra…
Post by Ben Edwards
Sep
8
2006
In The Art of the Start Guy Kawasaki tells us to “Make Mantra”. I think this is good practice in any endeavor. A simple message that can be conveyed to all parties, is easy to remember and gets to the … Continue reading
