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As a developer with 10+ years’ experience, it’s likely surprising to many of you that I have never been on a project that truly used TDD. Don’t get me wrong.  I have been on projects where some of us wrote some unit tests occasionally.  I have also been on projects where we wrote integration tests, … Continue reading »

In the fall of 2011 I did some research regarding agile and failure for a presentation at Much Ado About Agile 2011 in Vancouver. The research was focused by a blog post by Philippe Kruchten describing some of the agile elephants. He listed “commercial interests censoring failure” and “using Elitism as a defense (against failure)” … Continue reading »

Leadership. It is one of those terms that there are a million different interpretations for. Similar to quality. For me, Leadership has always come down to five main abilities. Rather than me describe them, here are five quotes that I feel capture the essence of the five abilities. 1) Ability to Inspire “If your actions … Continue reading »

I’ve had multiple posts in the past that provided my passionate opinion on why I believe we should estimate Agile projects. (Both from the perspective of the client and the team) But rather than get into that discussion once again, I thought it would be more valuable if I shared the 10 practices that we … Continue reading »

At some point in your agile journey you begin to ask and/or hear this question: “Is agile suitable for all projects?” Here are some of the responses I’ve heard from both those who are still learning about agile and those who have a lot of agile experience: Agile isn’t necessary when you have a known … Continue reading »

Uttering the word “strategy” in most business circles generates many different reactions, few of them positive or even interested. That’s because for most of us, the corporate strategic planning process is akin to some strange ritual that happens behind closed doors, if it happens at all, and the result is often of a mystical nature … Continue reading »

My first experience with an Agile project that was more Agile than Waterfall was in 2006. I phrase it in that way as all projects I have been on have had some aspects of Agile. But I digress, back to the story… In December of 2005 a fixed price RFP was released for a new … Continue reading »