Posts Tagged ‘Agile’
Recently I introduced Kanban to an inflight development project with the objective of trialling this technique with the team to raise productivity by overcoming various communication and process issues. In the first part of this 3 part series I presented an introduction to Kanban. This second part will cover the results obtained by introducing it [...]
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Tags: Agile, Kanban, Management, Methodology
An Introduction to Kanban
Recently I introduced Kanban to an inflight development project with the objective of trialling this technique with a hope to raising productivity by overcoming various communication and process issues. In this three part series I’ll cover my real world experiences and the results felt by the project/team. This first part offers an introduction to Kanban, [...]
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Tags: Agile, Kanban, Management, Methodology
Enterprise IT Project Insanity
A study published in the Harvard Business Review has again shown that many IT projects continue to come in late and over budget. In addition it shows that there is a higher than expected number of large scale failures. These failures are massively over budget (200% in this study) and over deadline (70% overruns) and [...]
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Tags: Agile, DevTeam, IT Industry
We have made huge advances over recent years in the tools available to the development team, including the more proactive and investigative tools (profiling tools, code analysis, performance analysis, debugging etc). However demanding project timelines mean that we have increasingly less time to investigate, trial and use these tools. Compounding the problem is that unfortunately [...]
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Tags: Agile, DevTeam, IT Industry
Is Your Gym Like Your Dev Team?
I recently managed to drag myself out of the office and into the gym, but unfortunately my mind was still on the office and my observations of what makes a dev team tick. In between sets I observed my fellow gym-goers and I witnessed similarities with my experiences of IT development teams. Parallels between your [...]
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Tags: Agile, DevTeam, linkedin
The Future Of The IT Department
Recently I have been witness to rapid, often painful, change within my own internal IT division over the last few years and observed the on-going developments in the industry. It is clear that IT departments changed dramatically in a short amount of time and the pace is not relenting. This has led me to try [...]
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Tags: Agile, Architecture, IT Industry, linkedin, Management
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