AgileInnovation

One of the most common questions I get from folks looking at agile for the first time is ‘Does agile mean I don’t have to do documentation?’. I think this ‘myth’ stems from the agile manifesto value of ‘Working Software’ over ‘Comprehensive Documentation’. But the manifesto doesn’t say documentation is bad, just that working software [...]

Alan Spencer (Agile leader D&B), Frederic Oehl (Agile Coach Cerner and AgileTour organizer) and Colm O’hEocha (Agile Trainer/Coach at AgileInnovation) will be meeting 6pm next Thursday, 1st March. We’re hoping others interested in chatting about agile/lean, sharing war-stories, or even just curious on what its all about, will come along for a cuppa (or pinta!) [...]

After founding AgileIreland a couple of months ago, I’ve moved by blogging activity there – take a look at www.agileireland.org

Risk undermines predictability in software development – every development effort includes some unknowns. Some development is relatively risk free – for example, writting another driver that is 90% the same as one done previously, but just using a different interface signature. But most involve considerable risk – technology you haven’t used before, or a new [...]

On 25th February there will be a public lecture with Dr. Peter Middleton from Queens University Belfast reporting on one of the most successful, large scale deployments of lean software development in BBC Worldwide. More details to follow….

Many of E. Demings key points underlie agile and lean approaches to work – this summary well worth the 5 minutes it takes to read it

Lean Thinking, which underlies Agile methods like Scrum and XP, has as one of its central pillars “respect for people”. Agile reflects this in terms of ‘whole team’ accountability, collaboration and self-organisation. All these factors lead to agile seeing team members from a more ‘humanistic’ point of view – they are more than just resources [...]

EU Centric Lean Software Development Conference – Exact date to be confirmed

Leading US centric Lean Software Development Conference

One of the big culprits in failed agile teams is the tendency to cherry pick those practices that seem to ‘fit with the way you work’, ‘with the way we do things around here’. Agile explicitly calls for methods to be customised depending on context. But often this can be misconstrued as selecting those bits [...]