Digital by Default

Tag: agile

  • [from the archive] Don’t do Agile. Be agile. Or something.

    ‘from the archive’ are posts appropriate to this blog I am adding from my earlier Medium writings or blogposts elsewhere — avoiding the worst of it 🙂 First published October 31st, 2015. 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…

  • Blogumentation and storytelling

    I am in the process of writing a slidedeck and a few other bits and pieces to support it as a part of our ‘communications strategy’ (meh) for the run up to the launch of our new website (yay). Given I am prevaricating about that (as always) I have been looking at what we — well I — have…

  • 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 I have taken…

  • Is ‘Agile’ important?

    I’ve linked to this on Twitter but I just wanted to comment on it here. Bob Marshall has written this brilliant post titled Agile Development Doesn’t Work and I think it is a must read for anyone in web development (especially on the management side). It can be summed up with its introductory statement; Q:…

  • Scrum-ptious Applications

    One of the things I miss from my time at Jiva (apart from the team of course) is working closely with everyone to actually build the product and the way we used to Scrum in a relatively flexible way to give us a framework to work within. Of all the myriad roles I’ve had over…