Doing what I do for a living, I find myself often trying to explain agile concepts to folks that are relatively new to agile methodologies. Sometimes this comes up when I am teaching a class, doing a conference talk, or breaking down some idea in a bl…
Here is the last little bit of Chapter 1. Here we explain how we’ve laid out the book, and a bit about why. I want you to understand the entire story first, so as you are reading, you not only have context from a persona perspective, but also context…
We are almost to the end of the first chapter. This section of the book gives an overview of some of the major concepts around this idea of a value driven agile transformation. It a nutshell, we are talking about finding your critical path… your pr…
So now that we have set a little context, it’s time to start getting down to the business of talking about how to solve the problem. About time huh? This next section is intended to bridge to a high-level description of the solution and then a chapte…
Okay, this is a long post… I didn’t want to break it up because these next few paragraphs represent a complete thought. If you’ve been reading my blog for at least the last 6 months, you have seen some of this before. We are continuing to establis…
As we continue to establish context it is important for folks to understand that we get that smaller is better. I wish that everything we ever wanted to build could be built by 6 to 8 developers in a co-located team room. Many folks say things like, …
I mentioned a while ago that Dennis and I were planning to blog our way through this book we are writing. We’ll, over the holidays I really got serious about writing this thing, and we dropped a pretty detailed chapter outline, and almost 7000 words i…