Here’s how Agile get’s a bad rap… We don’t have to plan.We don’t have to think about what we want to do.We don’t have to write anything down.We don’t have to look past the current sprint.We don’t have to be worried about what we deliver.We can change what we are doing and who is doing it every day.We don’t need to worry about what we deliver. All wrong, all the time. Agile isn’t a reason…
When working with a new platform or trying to demo something to a customer there are two elements that will make your software demo sing; Customizing it to their industry, their business, their needs.Showing them data of what can happen over a period of time. And yet, we never want to do this work. A few weeks ago, I was working on a customer demo and wanted to populate the system with some data to…
If you don’t know, then you haven’t been paying attention. It’s that simple. If you have to ask, then you’ve been ignoring what’s happening with the rest of the team and have only been focused on your own work. At the end of the day, it’s what the team delivers that matters, not what the individual does. Whether it’s agile, scrum, waterfall, nimble, bimble or my favourite – simple – it’s all a measurement of…
When the format is more important than the content of what we are creating, we have started down a path that is hard to recover from. It’s hard to recover because the writer worries more about the look than the content because that is what they have learned they will be judged on first before anything else. As the adage goes, Content is the King (and the Queen, and the rook, and the bishop and…
I don’t have a demo, but there are a few people I know who this is their thing, this is what they strive towards and toil on, late in the evening and early the morning. Will you listen to my demo? Will you take time out of your day to listen to everything that I have poured into this one cassette, CD, DVD, MP3, iTunes song. There is something great about having someone approach you…