The Most Important Part of A User Story
The last couple of years has seen a wholesale shift in development methodologies among the Fortune 1000 companies from Waterfall to Agile. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Agile revolution...
View ArticleHappy Agile Holidays!
Continuing my trend of mixing my personal and professional hobbies, I wanted to share some good holiday, agile cheer with you all with a few agile holiday songs. Please feel free to sing along! Rocking...
View ArticleTripping Up On Mindset
For many people, one of the biggest challenges in transitioning to agile from a more traditional waterfall or iterative approach is learning to think differently about how work is done. In a...
View ArticleDecision Tables as Acceptance Criteria?
Lately, I’ve been working on an Agile project where all the requirements are written in the user story and acceptance criteria format. The acceptance criteria on this project are really the meat and...
View ArticleWhen Agile Transformations Fail
For all the excitement we see around the adoption of agile methodologies, and the positive effect it can have on product delivery, there are some reports which show that companies are struggling with...
View ArticleIFTTT: Acceptance Criteria for Daily Life
I recently downloaded an iPhone app called IFTTT (If This Then That). With IFTTT, users can automate phone and app functionality by constructing “recipes” that connect previously-unconnected features....
View ArticleAgile Troubleshooting: Interface Documentation
When an organization first switches to agile, the documentation and proper vetting of interfaces can often be a significant roadblock to successful delivery. In my own project, I have seen this borne...
View ArticleHow to identify, train, coach and mentor an awesome Product Owner!
Much of my work on projects lately has been around coaching and mentoring product owners, both internally at Seilevel and at my customers. What I’ve found is that when companies make the change from...
View Article“In Tune” with Agile: The Spotify Way
The year is 2014 C.E. Two rival Tribes are converging on a grassy field littered with tables, in modern-day Stockholm. There is tension in the cold, winter air. The Squads within each Tribe shift...
View ArticleHappy people, happy code
I have a friend who, after years being that one guy who was fluent in Cobol and kept that ancient but really important legacy application running, got a new gig at a local Agile tech company. The last...
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