The evening went well for John
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »
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A social network for people interested in agile and lean product development
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on June 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been working in the social networking domain for the last year and Jason Gorman had the initial idea of setting one up to see what interactions and collaborations might flourish. So I created a network called Delivering Value
Actually I’m not sure where it will take us, perhaps nowhere, but I thought it might be [...]
Ouch!
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on June 11, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Anyone read Scott Ambler’s article Coming Soon: Agile Certification. He says “certification of agile practitioners is already here”. And he’s got some scathing words about the Scrum Alliance and it’s Certified Scrum Master programme.
I don’t want to be certified and I don’t believe that I need to be certified. I would much rather you sit [...]
Left leg or whole body?
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on May 24, 2007 | No Comments »
There’s some discussion happening at the Agile Forums about refocusing the Agile Alliance. Brian Marick advocates a new focus on helping teams be ready to execute Agile:
If the teams could vault from novice to seasoned in a day, and if they were less affected by external political/organizational issues, they’d all do fine. The problem they [...]
Brian Marick wants to stir things up
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on May 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Through the Agile Alliance, Brian Marick wants to stir things up to help address his disquiet over the state of Agile as it moves into the mainstream. To be entirely honest, I’ve been disillusioned with the Alliance for a while because I believed its focus to be limited (programs delivering questionable value from and a [...]
Standardisation over innovation
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on May 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Gus and I have been working on another handbook. It’s inspired by lean principles and techniques and is aimed at the organisation and it’s management. One of the notes we made was about management’s predilection for standardisation over innovation. We haven’t hammered this one out yet, in handbook format, but here’s my initial thinking on [...]
Does the Agile Manifesto need refactoring? Should it be extended?
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on April 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Towards the end of the last meeting, Colin MacAndrew asked the group “Does the Agile Manifesto need refactoring?” and it was encouraging to see quite a few people leap to its defence. Now, Colin simply asked a question about whether it could be improved, he didn’t state that it needed to be re-written. And yet [...]
More discussion, more debate please
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on April 27, 2007 | No Comments »
If agile methods have crossed the chasm, then agility has reached a level of maturity. But we should never stop questioning our beliefs and we should continuously seek to improve the fundamentals of how we work so that we can adapt with more effectiveness.
With that in mind, I believe the purpose of our forum meetings [...]
Changes required to accommodate agile methods
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on February 3, 2007 | No Comments »
On Wednesday night Andrew Scotland ran a workshop at the second Agile Practitioners Forum. The event was organised by Les Oliver and Simon Voice and sponsored by Radtac and Connections Recruitment. The venue was the Gun Room aboard the HMS Belfast.
The topic for exploration was bringing about the change necessary to accommodate the adoption of [...]
Constructive disruption and compromised agility
Posted in Simon's Soapbox on November 17, 2006 | No Comments »
UPDATE: A new version of the Agile Zealot’s Handbook is now available.
On Wednesday night I was the guest speaker at the inaugural Agile Practitioners Forum, organised by Les Oliver and Simon Voice and sponsored by Radtac and Connections Recruitment. The venue was the Gun Room aboard the HMS Belfast, which is moored on the Thames [...]
