I’m really asking. community /kəˈmjuːnɪti/ noun a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Not for the first time I find myself in a role where part of my responsibility is to support the development of some folk who are relatively early stage in their product and … Continue reading How do you build a ‘community of practice’ without a ‘community’ that practices?
Category: agile
Walls that talk
Terence wrote this post this week taking aim at the the pervasiveness of Post-Its in todays digital orthodoxy. He referred to the Post-Its on abandoned 'agile' walls as wallpaper. Sam responded with a lovely ode to the wonder of wallpaper. I've been known to take aim at the 'blizzard of Post-Its' (™ Charlie Stross) from … Continue reading Walls that talk
The challenge of ‘user driven development’
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’
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
