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 […]
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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 […]
The power of metaphors
During my work as a business improvement consultant for the last 15 years, it has often struck me how powerful simple metaphors may be in order to get a sustained change in behavior among the personnel. To prove my point, I will tell you two stories from my professional life. […]
The art of Scrumming – Going beyond the obvious
When adopting Scrum in an organisation, a highly prioritized goal is to create sustainable high performing, cross functional teams that self-organize and refrain from explicit roles. The question is: How do we get there? It is common knowledge today that Scrum and other agile methods may significantly raise the level […]
Is something ROTTEN in the practices of XP?
The attendees of the 2007 QCon and the Øresund Agile 2007 conference could see how XP in general, and Test-Driven Development in particular came under heavy bombardment by the well known Agile profile Jim Coplien. Lean Magazine contacted the nowadays Elsinore-based software professor, currently working as an Agile Coach for […]