When Schneider Electric Buildings was facing the challenge of building their next generation product portfolio, they realized that they needed a partner sharing their agile values and bringing in knowledge in developing solid web solutions. As always there was also need for reduced cost and i creased productivity. Using Softhouse […]
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Getting flow into your product development
As an expert on the management of product development for more than two decades, Don Reinertsen is famous for bringing ”fresh perspectives and quantitative rigour” to the subject. Here, he shares some of his thoughts on product development with Softhouse’s Ingemar Andreasson. The title of Don Reinertsens latest book is […]
Making the product backlog lean
“We have 12,000 stories in our product backlog. How can we best groom it?”, I was recently asked. Trying to deal with a huge product backlog is more common than we would like to think. Many product backlogs are too long, detailed and complex. This is in stark contrast to […]
“A USE CASE IS TO A USER STORY AS A GAZELLE TO A GAZEBO”
Requirements Management has for a time been a hot topic within the Agile community, and a religious war has seemed imminent between the followers of user stories on one side and use cases on the other. The rebelyell of the user story-buffs have often been “out with the old and […]
Do you waste management resources?
Management resources are often a scarce resource in a company. Nevertheless, many enterprises have a huge waste in this area. The Malmö-based company Telelogic has focused on this problem, and recently made progress in improving the automatic build and test process. Ola Eklundh, an experienced CM at the company, shares […]