Tell me a story

Having posted about Requirement Packs the other day, I noticed this post on Brian Marick’s blog, at the time I read the PDF that he supplies with some interest, Esther Derby then linked through to Brian’s post and caused me to give it some further consideration.
During the skunkworks project that I ran before Christmas I [...]

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When is a requirements pack not a requirements pack?

This is the second of the two work related blog posts that I spoke of, if you are here for Snowboarding related tales please feel free to visit the Red Moutain specific tag set.
I sat in a meeting towards the end of the Skunkworks project that I was working on and I was being asked [...]

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Well, Well, Well

This is the first of a couple of posts that I have had in my drafts waiting to be completed for a while now, I apologise if they seem a little out of context.
I came across this blog post in which the author makes a couple of points that are similar to those that I [...]

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War Time Correspondence

I had an interesting conversation with somebody on Wednesday who I had highlighted my blog to. He gave me some good feedback which was encouraging.
He mentioned that my posts came across as though they weren’t really aimed at anyone which I accepted, I’ve said to a couple of people now that I see this blog [...]

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The 3 Musketeers

I’ve just seen this very interesting chapter on 37 Signals which is part of a book that has been written titled “Getting Real, Discover the smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web based application.”, the entire book can be read online, for free here, you can also buy a pdf version here and [...]

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Analyse this

I was impressed today when, having been away from the team for some time, I came back to the office where we’re currently located and found them deep in conversation around a whiteboard. Nothing noteable about that you say? Agreed. What I found impressive was that they had identified between themselves that they needed to [...]

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Sprint 2: Lessons Learned

Following on from my post last week, here’s what I noted as lessons learned from Sprint 2.

Having a Proposition Up Front Will Aid the First Week of Planning (Pt. 2): I said last week that this would aid planning, I should have added requirements gathering too. I think the real lesson though is that I [...]

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To be or not to be?

After our proposition was signed off on Friday the team sat down, as I mentioned and drew up a revised Product Backlog (This may not be a strictly orthodox thing to do but it seemed the right thing to do for the team.) as we did so it started to dawn on me how much [...]

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What a difference a day makes

Two things of note happened yesterday, firstly, in our second Show and Tell we showed the Steering Group and one of the sponsors the application thus far. We showed all the functionality that we had committed to deliver in the sprint bar forgotten password. I am so impressed with the delivery team’s accomplishments this week. [...]

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When does an Issue become a Crisis?

There has been a known issue on this project from the outset, I have listed it in the Risk Register and monitored the Delivery Team’s perception of how much it was an issue.
Last week everyone understood that the issue, which is that we don’t have a clear understanding of who we are delivering to and [...]

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