Agile Design

I have been working with a large finance client recently in London and will be using this site to attempt to capture some of the experiences and lessons learnt during this period.

In particular I will be highlighting the barriers to effective agile adoption and showing how we could effectively recover from arising issues.

I trust that this will serve as a resource for those looking to adopt agile and working to resolve items on there own impediment backlog. Which leads me on to the most common of omissions by teams adopting SCRUM and I’ll get on to that very soon.

This site has been dormant for far too long. I don’t know how I have allowed silly thing like homes and work and family get in the way of important activities such as blogging and browsing.

I hope that this will become a worthwhile place to visit.

A useful resource for those interested in agile retrospectives is the google hosted recording of a presentation by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great

On Tuesday I braved an obscenely early start to attend day 2 of London’s XP Day. As usual I will try to summarise the sessions I attended here for the benefit of those who couldn’t make it but before that I’m going to raise a concern that seems to be growing in the agile community.
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Last week was the Agile North Annual conference. I was invited to run an introduction to Ruby on Rails. On the request of the attendees I’ve attached here the presentation slides along with the application developed.

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Last week was the Agile North Annual conference. I was invited to run an introduction to Ruby on Rails. On the request of the attendees I’ve attached here the presentation slides along with the application developed.

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Last week I was fortunate enough to take a day away from the coal face to attend Rachel Davies’ new workshop “How to facilitate Retrospectives on Agile projects”. This is a new workshop that Rachel has developed and had attracted a group of 10 delegates to Regents Park in London on a sunny Tuesday.

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I’ve been trying to get organised this week. In particular I’m trying to manage my network of contacts.
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This week I had the pleasure of running a demo of Ruby on Rails for the agile north group. This was a well attended session that (much as I’d like to) I probably can’t claim all of the credit for. While I have not had a great deal of experience of Ruby on Rails I agreed to run this session in part to force myself to spend a little time on it.

There seems to be a real buzz about Ruby at the moment. People from a wide variety of backgrounds are looking at Ruby and particularly Rails trying to establish what the fuss is all about and if the promised productivity can pay off in their environment.

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