The Haphazard Methodology
...isn’t Scrum: It’s a squares and rectangles thing. All Scrum is Agile; not all Agile is Scrum. Scrum, the most structured Agile variant, is especially popular among IT folk who,...… (3 comments)
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Rapids Development
Is Agile agile enough? I’ve been an Agile proponent since before we knew to call it Agile (although curiously, I don’t seem to have written much about it over the...… (9 comments)
A question with Titanic implications
...As we all know, IT has to adopt Agile. If you don’t use Agile techniques by now you’re two hops short of current thinking, current thinking having moved to DevOps,...… (9 comments)
De-scaling strategy
...Agile agile out of Agile. 2. In some cases it might make more sense to incorporate Agile principles into the business than to try to scale Agile to support waterfallish...… (10 comments)
Lao Tse vs waterfall
...and brakes than with the drive train. If the question is whether Agile makes IT more agile, the answer is an unequivocal “Yes,” because with Agile, requested changes go into...… (2 comments)
AppDev Metrics
...durned complicated to properly count. Also, they’re useless for Agile because function point analysis has deep connections to waterfall’s up-front specifications, which is one reason Agile replaced them with user...… (8 comments)
Technical architecture’s irreducible core
...management. Not enterprise technical architecture management in support of Agile, which is a different matter, although Agile ETAM does support Agile development quite nicely. Agile ETAM is, in fact, doubly...… (8 comments)
Trimodal IT: 50% better than bimodal IT?
...to scaling Agile, my colleagues and I are discovering that many of the organizations attempting to scale Agile find themselves less agile than they were with waterfall. Trimodal IT offers...… (5 comments)
DevOps benefits: Hand-waving and Fringe
...project. You’re welcome. Second: DevOps is more Agile than Agile: Instead of bundling lots of small changes into a big release that requires extensive testing and change management, DevOps deploys...… (1 comment)
There’s no need to fear. Scrummerfall is here!
It’s pop quiz time. The quiz has one question: Which application development methodology is gaining the most popularity? If you answered “Agile,” Blaaaaaaat! Wrong answer bucko. If you tried to...… (2 comments)