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Weinberg wisdom on agile software development

The PM Boulevard has posted 5Qs on Agile with Gerald M. Weinberg. Here are the answers to a couple of questions (the emphasis is my own) to highlight more Weinberg wisdom on agile: 1. Why use Agile...

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Standard work is only the best way so far

The concoction of Extreme Programming, Scrum and Lean thinking I’m using is the best way I’ve found to do software product development so far . I’m applying it, I’m inspecting the results, I’m adapting...

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The (un)ethics of Big Vendor contracts with cost-driven companies

Consider a company looking to procure external software services. This is a company that manages by objectives and spends time and effort micromanaging costs. In a typical procurement situation,...

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Using Spikes

The XP practice of ‘spiking’ has been around for a while but there isn’t a whole lot written about it. Why Spike? The XP site states that the purpose of a spike is “to figure out answers to tough...

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Fund success through lots of small investments not from one big estimate

If you have to estimate at least know why you’re estimating and do it appropriately so that it’s in some way useful with associated risks clearly defined. Understand what the estimate will be used for,...

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Agile on the Beach 2014: Contracted to deliver outcomes

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Agile on the Beach 2014 where I was presenting a talk on the business track about the evolution of our approach to delivering outcomes for our clients and how...

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Deliver outcomes not features

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been reflecting on the Contracted to deliver outcomes talk I gave at Agile on Beach. I covered a lot of ground (perhaps too much) over the 45 minutes and I now have a...

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Commercial Contracts: Guarantees, commitments and risks

“When you buy something, you want to know exactly what you’ll get and how much it will cost. It makes sense.” Our very own Simon Baker wrote this back in 2007. This is the prevailing mindset when...

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Working effectively requires responsibility, commitment, and accountability

Working effectively with others requires us to embrace and uphold the very essence of responsibility, commitment, and accountability. Consider the meanings of: “commitment” in the context of marriage,...

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Business outcomes are smarter goals

Setting a goal provides a focal point and helps with prioritisation and deflecting distractions. Have you set any new year resolutions? They’re goals. Promising to exercise more, drink less or eat less...

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3 things I learned about Agile

As a non-technical person who has come into the world of software development, I want to raise what I see because we are applying agile principles to traditional business practices and its an eye...

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Fund success through lots of small investments not from one big estimate

If you have to estimate at least know why you’re estimating and do it appropriately so that it’s in some way useful with associated risks clearly defined. Understand what the estimate will be used for,...

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Agile on the Beach 2014: Contracted to deliver outcomes

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Agile on the Beach 2014 where I was presenting a talk on the business track about the evolution of our approach to delivering outcomes for our clients and how...

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Deliver outcomes not features

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been reflecting on the Contracted to deliver outcomes talk I gave at Agile on Beach. I covered a lot of ground (perhaps too much) over the 45 minutes and I now have a...

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Commercial Contracts: Guarantees, commitments and risks

“When you buy something, you want to know exactly what you’ll get and how much it will cost. It makes sense.” Our very own Simon Baker wrote this back in 2007. This is the prevailing mindset when...

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Working effectively requires responsibility, commitment, and accountability

Working effectively with others requires us to embrace and uphold the very essence of responsibility, commitment, and accountability. Consider the meanings of: “commitment” in the context of marriage,...

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Business outcomes are smarter goals

Setting a goal provides a focal point and helps with prioritisation and deflecting distractions. Have you set any new year resolutions? They’re goals. Promising to exercise more, drink less or eat less...

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3 things I learned about Agile

As a non-technical person who has come into the world of software development, I want to raise what I see because we are applying agile principles to traditional business practices and its an eye...

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Team Week reprise: in praise of agile product teams

All week we’ve been tweeting about agile teams. You can find the tweets using the hashtag #TeamWeek. A couple of years ago I wrote a post asking what made a good product manager. Having analysed the...

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Fund success through lots of small investments not from one big estimate

If you have to estimate at least know why you’re estimating and do it appropriately so that it’s in some way useful with associated risks clearly defined. Understand what the estimate will be used for,...

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