Over the years I have noticed a lot of agile anti-patterns during projects. Wrongly used agile approaches, dogmatic use of agile approaches, agile-in-name-only. Recently I have presented a talk at a number of agile and software development conferences that demonstrates patterns of agile misuse. These conferences include Agile Open Holland (Dieren), Camp Digital (Manchester), GIDS (Bangalore), ACCU (Oxford) and Jazoon (Zurich). Anyway, here’s the slide deck. Enjoy. Agile Anti-Patterns. Yes your agile projects can and … Continue reading
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How to kill your estimates
It must have been about twenty five years ago. I was working for a large international consultancy firm. One of the reliable ones. The ones that you would think that had everything worked out. But I guess this was merely the product of my imagination. At one time two colleagues and I were working on an estimate for a bid for a software development project. Now the three of us together, despite the fact that … Continue reading
Evolving agile
Without any doubt agile is the biggest evolution in software development approaches since the introduction of waterfall back in the early seventies. And yes. Agile is an evolution rather than a revolution. The best practices and techniques in agile didn’t just pop-up. Rather they emerged from years of hard-working, real-life experience in succeeding and failing in projects. So working in short iterations, in multi-disciplinary teams, prioritizing our work items regularly, and testing and delivering early … Continue reading
Hoe Agile in je privéleven start, en wat managers moeten doen
Als je ergens over nadenkt moet je dat vanuit de kern doen, vind ik. In het geval van Agile is die kern het Agile manifest: Mensen en hun onderlinge interactie boven processen en tools Werkende software boven allesomvattende documentatie Samenwerking met de klant boven contractonderhandelingen Inspelen op verandering boven het volgen van een plan Bekende Agile methoden zoals SCRUM proberen de Agile werkwijze toe te passen op een praktische manier. Echter, in zulke methodieken … Continue reading
| March 20, 2012
in Uncategorized
Tagged agile, begrip, leven, management, manager, mulder, piramide, prive, willem
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Is agile cheaper?
(Spoiler: No and yes…) Currently Agile is hot and happening, and a lot of our customers are asking us to build them a product, and when we do so, could we please do this in an agile way, since that is cheaper. That’s a bit of an odd thing to do of course, since I can’t go to car manufacturer and ask them to please give me that new Volkswagen Golf Comfort line, but could … Continue reading
Werken met agile, ik zou niet anders meer willen!
Ik ben nu zo’n 3 jaar als tester aan de slag bij Capgemini. De laatste 2 projecten heb ik gewerkt met de agile manier van werken. Het directe contact, de snelle resultaten en de flexibiliteit binnen ons team spreken mij erg aan en geven mij meer energie in mijn werk. Een van de voordelen die ik als tester heb ervaren is het directe contact met de ontwikkelaars. Nergens anders heb ik ooit meegemaakt dat bugs … Continue reading
Agile: aren’t the “reasons” really “results”?
Recently, VersionOne published their annual “the state of agile” survey for 2011. I was very pleased with what I read in the survey. It seems everything is on the up and up for agile software development, and I am all for that. The fact that VersionOne refers to their tool as being for “agile project management” is a bit disturbing, but hey, who am I to start whining about the combination of agile and project … Continue reading
The (im)possibility of knowing what we want, and getting it
In everyday life we make a lot of decisions about what we want and how we want it, for instance when we go out to buy a television, a car, or a music playing device. We know the details of what we want, and go out to get it. So as a consumer we always know exactly what we want and how we want it, don’t we? Well… some would argue and say that really … Continue reading
Don’t break up a winning team
I am not a big soccer fan, but I know a lot of people who are. Any soccer fan can tell you that if you add the best soccer players of the world in one team and just let them play against FC Barcelona, they would definitely loose. Not because they are not the best soccer players, or because all the best soccer players in the world happen to play for FC Barcelona, but because … Continue reading
The (Im)possibility of selling a time/budget-box
With the current economical climate, everyone is keeping a keen eye on their wallet, to make sure they are not spending more than is absolutely necessary. And when it comes to cost of IT, the newspapers remind us time and time again how those big projects keep breaking their budgets, so it’s buyer beware. What is the logical reaction: Make sure beforehand that you know the exact price you are going to pay, and make … Continue reading
| December 20, 2011
in Agile selling
Tagged agile, budgetbox, fixed-price, sales, timebox
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