Methodology must be adapted, every developer must understand their part in the whole and architecture issues are key – these are three conclusions that Ericsson have reached from their experience of running large-scale Lean & Agile projects.
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Thorough Preparation creates an Effective Team
The story of a group of software developers who formed a team, travelled to Denmark and found joy working on an agile software project. In the spring of 2009 Softhouse was contacted by a Danish client looking for a development team with skills in web technology. The client develops electronic […]
An Agile Contract model based on Trouble Tickets
”It’s all about promoting an efficient way of working where focus on headcount is dropped to the benefit of flexibility in the working teams.” For several years, Softhouse has been promoting the ideas around payment for actual deliverables rather than spent hours. About a year ago – in the summer […]
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 […]
“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 […]