It has been 18 months now since we officially started the project to build a new ONS website - the most consistent thing throughout our initial discovery, the alpha and now the latter days of the beta has been a commitment to the principle of being ‘user focused’. Over the life of the project … Continue reading The challenge of ‘user driven development’
Category: agile
Don’t do Agile. Be agile. Or something.
I've read a couple of great posts about 'agile' in the last week or so - it is like 2008 all over again! First Paul Downey strayed from the topic of lists & registers to contemplate 'scope creep' and then Nik Silver wrote about 'getting partial value from partial delivery'. Both posts eloquently cover … Continue reading Don’t do Agile. Be agile. Or something.
Learning the value of agile
Somewhat amusingly in the week that there seemed to be something of a backlash against 'agile' development methodologies I embarked on a programme of study towards the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Agile starting with a 2 day intro course and then followed up with 10 weeks of work-based coaching and weekly study groups. There are … Continue reading Learning the value of agile
