My two-step forward, one-step back dance with Trello began way before I boarded the kanban train. In the beginning we used it as our main tool for planning, documenting and controlling development. The team was willing to try it, after using a whiteboard and (not-so) sticky notes with the planned-doing-done trio, which we copied to
Jason Gorman describes (in a very nice manner) how software courses are lowering the bar. It’s up to us to keep the bar higher. I agree completely. Yet what happens with scrum certification in the last years, has started long before. We’d like to think of software as a craft and development as a skill.
In the beginning we had plans. These plans were crucial to the business organizations. They relied on products being ready, so marketing could have marketing prepared, sales can sell them, and support support them. Then reality happened. Either the products were not ready on time, or their quality was bad, or were not what the
Agile is a mindset. It is not a goal or end state. You can’t be agile because someone or something (including certificates) say so. There are no agile people (Sorry Yves). But, there can be agile organizations. Agile organizations are in constant pursuit of improvement. They constantly learn and improve quality. They use the proper
There are many agile conferences these days. Many of them are not about what we used to call “agile” anymore. In fact, a friend pointed out when I mentioned a TDD session from an agile conference, saying: Really? An agile presentation with code? Most of the topics today are moving towards lean, kanban, leadership and
It’s time to talk about when I’m going to talk next. January 29-30th is Israeli 2nd annual Agile Practitioners conference. While having a 2nd year in a row in Israel is a success by itself. But wait, there’s more. Keynoting are Dan North and Boris Gloger, with more international speakers, as well as some of
I’ve become more aware how agile is perceived by different people, recently when I was at Agile Eastern Europe conference. It was an unusual experience: my usual day job has been for a long time about improvement. My twitter conversations are about high level lean and advanced agile stuff.I’m floating happily inside my echo chamber.
