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| Related DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | Agile Advice for Aviva (and many other big companies) Aviva are trying to be “Agile” but like every other big company are struggling. Someone asked me if I could name a big company which had made the Agile change and I struggled. Yes, many big companies are trying Agile, and yes there are many successful teams in these companies. But has an entire company made the entire change? Pay the SyncConf Norwich team to re-run the conference again (with a few tweaks) inside the company. Give your team support, send them on training, hire consultants to come and coach, buy them books. don’t know of any. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Agile: Where's the evidence? For their book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development Coplien and Harrison spent over 10 years assessing teams. On my last visit we held a workshop with the leaders of the companies and software teams. don’t know how we would have done it without Agile” “Agile has changed the way we run the company” “It is hard to imagine a world without Agile” That last company is now finding their source code base is shrinking. Thus, if you do want to stall the Agile people in your company, first ask “Where is the evidence Agile works?”. Scrum? Finance? Chaos? Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull And I fluffed it, despite having written a book on the subject I didn’t have a quick answer to hand. You can read the books, you can experiment, you can go on courses. practise, and have written before about, light-touch Agile coaching , in this model I return to companies at intervals, perhaps monthly, perhaps more frequently, sometimes less frequently and continue the discussion. Reading books works for some people but most books go unread, or the words go in one eye and out the other. Either way, the prognosis isn’t optimistic. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 |
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Requirements whose job are they anyway? The talk title is a reference to the John Le Carre book “Tinker Tailor Solider Spy!” , its probably too clever by half and I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” First all too often this side is neglected, companies believe that Developers will somehow comprehend what is needed from a simple statement. In the UK it seems to me that too many companies think requirements are done by Business Analysts. This is often the case when development groups are developing software for the company’s own use or by a specific client. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 People or the system? George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” essay in Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays, Penguin Books I am sure I am not alone in exhibiting another of Orwellian trait: Double think. And I have worked places where everyone was treading water and complying enough with the system I have seen different things happen within the same organisation, even within what the company regarded as “one team.” The company was trying to sell, sell, sell so they could IPO and the software team just had to keep up as best they could. “the two view-points are always tenable. Kanban, Scrum, etc. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Agile Advice for Aviva (and many other big companies) Aviva are trying to be “Agile” but like every other big company are struggling. Someone asked me if I could name a big company which had made the Agile change and I struggled. Yes, many big companies are trying Agile, and yes there are many successful teams in these companies. But has an entire company made the entire change? Pay the SyncConf Norwich team to re-run the conference again (with a few tweaks) inside the company. Give your team support, send them on training, hire consultants to come and coach, buy them books. don’t know of any. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Agile Advice for Aviva (and many other big companies)
Aviva are trying to be “Agile” but like every other big company are struggling. Someone asked me if I could name a big company which had made the Agile change and I struggled. Yes, many big companies are trying Agile, and yes there are many successful teams in these companies. But has an entire company made the entire change? Pay the SyncConf Norwich team to re-run the conference again (with a few tweaks) inside the company. Give your team support, send them on training, hire consultants to come and coach, buy them books. don’t know of any. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Make strategy like you make software?
The myth about long range / strategic planning in companies was exploded a long time ago. Sure some companies still do it but that doesn’t mean it works. It is not only software development were managers and companies have suffered from the Illusion of Control it occurs in strategy formation and planning. But this is more than just a parallel: for companies which use a lot of technology software and strategy are increasingly converging. At the same time software systems open up opportunities and create strategy options for companies. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - Software Facts - well, numbers at least
Overwhelmingly Jones researched American companies and American teams. But really, it isn’t a book of numbers. About a year ago I needed some numbers about software development - industry norms really: effectiveness, productivity, bug counts etc. Its actually pretty hard to get these numbers and after hunting around I found myself with a copy of Capers Jones Applied Software Measurement. Jones, for those who don’t know, has made a career out of analysing software and software teams numbers. Unfortunately, for me, Jones didn’t have the numbers I wanted - I forget what I wanted now. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, January 14, 2011 - The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My!
Ask Facebook, Twitter, Digg, SourceForge, WebEx, Reddit and a bunch of other companies here and here that are using NoSQL databases. Michael Dirolf also has a great book in the works. You can catch a preview of it on Safari Books Online. Maybe you’ve heard people talking about ditching their SQL Servers and other RDBMS entirely. There is a movement out in the software development world called the "No SQL" movement and it’s taking the web application world by storm. Insanity!” you may cry, “for where will people put their data if not in a database? Flat files? Ok, ok. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever
The argument was, post dot-com-boom, that IT was now a commodity, companies didn’t need to spend big bucks on it because they could buy just about anything they wanted off-the-shelf. remember booking my first flight to the US that year. We talked, she booked me a flight. In 1997 how many of us ever saw the inside of a travel companies IT system? Yes the company needed it but the dependency was recent. This year I’ve booked flights on BA, KLM, S7 and Virgin Atlantic. Booking the family holiday is even more IT dependent. It was a strategy decision. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 - Manage Your Christmas Card List
Our Christmas card mailing list is kept in a little address book that is full of entries that have been crossed out as addresses, marital status, and family members have all changed. was thinking today it would be handy to use an online tool to replace that little tattered address book when it struck me: CROWD SPACE WOULD BE PERFECT FOR THAT! Crowd Space ( [link] ) is the flagship product of my little web company. In my household, my wife manages the Christmas card mailing list. Here’s a quick rundown of why Crowd Space is a great solution for this: 1. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Thursday, December 17, 2009 - Agile: Where's the evidence?
For their book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development Coplien and Harrison spent over 10 years assessing teams. On my last visit we held a workshop with the leaders of the companies and software teams. don’t know how we would have done it without Agile” “Agile has changed the way we run the company” “It is hard to imagine a world without Agile” That last company is now finding their source code base is shrinking. Thus, if you do want to stall the Agile people in your company, first ask “Where is the evidence Agile works?”. Scrum? Finance? Chaos? Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 %>
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