Posts Tagged ‘Agile’

Being agile in a service based industry

Today I presented in our Intergen Wellington D&I mentoring session for the first time about agile development in a service based company. I think I have a really good story to tell but don’t think I articulated it as well I had hoped to.
I shall refrain myself from repeating what’s already been said succinctly in the [...]

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Principles of agile development (1)

1. “Early and continuous delivery.”
Business processes are ever changing (even during the course of development) and sometimes customers don’t necessarily know what exactly they want out of the system till they see it in action. So it makes sense that the earlier and more frequent we involve customers in the process the quicker customers will [...]

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The Agile Alliance Manifesto

These are some truly mind blowing, eye opening rules (to a newbie anyway)… here are some extracts from the book (Sorry about the mass copying & pasting, I just had to include each and every word of it… they are simply well meant.)
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping [...]

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Console.Read(); // “Start reading damn it!”

I was never a good reader, never liked reading really. Guess that’s why I never got good at it. I tried really, I made several attempts on starting to read a few classics by Charles Dickens that I got given at college prize giving when I was leaving school back in 2001.
Thanks to Tim the other [...]

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