In Lean thinking, waste is anything that does not contribute to creating customer value. When I was recently asked to temporarily step into the ScrumMaster role for my team, I was able to see the power of the impediment process to eliminate waste.
[View Post]crum requires that at the end of each sprint that you deliver a potentially shippable product increment. To maximize the ability of the team to deliver this functionality, it is important to break this functionality into managable chunks.
[View Post]This is the first in series of articles about Object Relational Mapping.
Lately, I have seen many agile projects choosing code generation tools to implement a persistence mapping layer, using Hibernate as their ORM of choice.
In most cases, the relational schema has already been defined by the customer and the team is developing the backend system [...]
I see a lot of confusion between the nature of emergent, complex problems (as opposed to simple or complicated problems) and the agile practices used to address complex problems.
[View Post]Here’s how to create a StoryTestIQ project in Eclipse, and how to automate the test runs serially and in parallel from a continuous integration server such as Hudson.
[View Post]It is the social perception of uncertainty (or certainty) that determines the reality of uncertainty (or certainty).
[View Post]Weak product owners are a persistent problem in Agile development teams. Agile teams are like a Ferrari engine waiting for a capable driver to take advantage of all it has to offer.
[View Post]When I tell people I am an Agile coach, people tend to remember back to coaches that they have had in their past. I had plenty of bad coaches that were uninspiring, demotivating, and ineffective. I had plenty of bad coaches that would tell me what I was doing wrong, how lousy I was, and where I would never get.
[View Post]If your retrospectives don’t get the juicy, “meaty” stuff out and into a tangible, prioritized list of the top actions for self-improvement or if a team seems to have its own “elephant in the room,” maybe it’s time to take a closer look at a retrospective…or two.
[View Post]It’s right there in Tom Petty’s song: “Waiting is the hardest part.” But Tom got it wrong: *starting* is the hardest part.
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