Cloudflare Dev Workshop 2020 In mid-February, I had the privilege to attend the first Melbourne Cloudflare dev event. This was just one of a series of sessions they ran across the country to reach out to developers and help educate people around their thinking and the...
In my 3 years as a Scrum Master, it's safe to say I've helped facilitate a few estimating sessions. Despite my best efforts, some of these were long (2 hr+) sessions that could lead to team frustration, low engagement and sometimes a loss of confidence...
One of the challenges working in a consultancy on client site, is adapting modern ideas and techniques onto existing legacy systems. The temptation can be to sweep away the old and replace with the new, but most times this is not possible (or even desirable...
Mark raised some very good points in his comment against my recent post on welcoming change in projects: "One main barrier to these approaches being adopted in the past was the engagement/contract models that our clients dictated. If the project needs a fixed cost, you usually...
My last post on Agile software development ended on one of the Agile Manifesto key principles - "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development." But surely that leads to chaos - how can we possibly build something if we've got a moving target ? It...
The Agile Manifesto was released in 2001 with some theatre and not a little revolutionary symbolism. Whilst it was seen by many as being a radical departure from accepted software development "best practise" I remember being somewhat bemused at what all the fuss was about....