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| Related DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | Agile: Where's the evidence? Notice, if I was a serious researcher I would closet myself in the library for days or weeks and do the literature review myself. His answer: “that's an interesting question because a lot of research simply assumes that agile (as a whole) is better, without any evidence for it.” As I blogged two years ago there is a study from Microsoft Research and North Carolina University which is pretty conclusive on this, TDD leads to vastly fewer bugs. For their book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development Coplien and Harrison spent over 10 years assessing teams. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull Researchers like Harvard Professor John Kotter regularly say 70% of major change efforts fail. 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. Reading books works for some people but most books go unread, or the words go in one eye and out the other. One of the closing slides in my Agile Foundations course includes a quote from Ken Schwaber saying that only 30% of teams who attempt Scrum will be successful. There are real feedback loops here. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 Thoughts on Mind the Product conference Marty Cagan as a keynote, I’m envious, I tried to get Marty to speak at Agile on the Beach but he was already booked of this. Things that weren’t so good Some sessions really lacked focus or content - e.g. the talk on the games industry had lots of good ideas but they were not finished, they needed more research and thinking; some of the other presentations left me wondering “what is their point?” As I mentioned in the last blog posting I was at Mind the Product last week in London. Good points That the conference was happening at all in London was perhaps the best thing for me. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 1, 2012 |
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Thoughts on Mind the Product conference Marty Cagan as a keynote, I’m envious, I tried to get Marty to speak at Agile on the Beach but he was already booked of this. Things that weren’t so good Some sessions really lacked focus or content - e.g. the talk on the games industry had lots of good ideas but they were not finished, they needed more research and thinking; some of the other presentations left me wondering “what is their point?” As I mentioned in the last blog posting I was at Mind the Product last week in London. Good points That the conference was happening at all in London was perhaps the best thing for me. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 1, 2012 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull Researchers like Harvard Professor John Kotter regularly say 70% of major change efforts fail. 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. Reading books works for some people but most books go unread, or the words go in one eye and out the other. One of the closing slides in my Agile Foundations course includes a quote from Ken Schwaber saying that only 30% of teams who attempt Scrum will be successful. There are real feedback loops here. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 Agile: Where's the evidence? Notice, if I was a serious researcher I would closet myself in the library for days or weeks and do the literature review myself. His answer: “that's an interesting question because a lot of research simply assumes that agile (as a whole) is better, without any evidence for it.” As I blogged two years ago there is a study from Microsoft Research and North Carolina University which is pretty conclusive on this, TDD leads to vastly fewer bugs. For their book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development Coplien and Harrison spent over 10 years assessing teams. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Agile: Where's the evidence?
Notice, if I was a serious researcher I would closet myself in the library for days or weeks and do the literature review myself. His answer: “that's an interesting question because a lot of research simply assumes that agile (as a whole) is better, without any evidence for it.” As I blogged two years ago there is a study from Microsoft Research and North Carolina University which is pretty conclusive on this, TDD leads to vastly fewer bugs. For their book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development Coplien and Harrison spent over 10 years assessing teams. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, March 30, 2012 - 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 - 10 Things to make you Agile adoption successfull
Researchers like Harvard Professor John Kotter regularly say 70% of major change efforts fail. 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. Reading books works for some people but most books go unread, or the words go in one eye and out the other. One of the closing slides in my Agile Foundations course includes a quote from Ken Schwaber saying that only 30% of teams who attempt Scrum will be successful. There are real feedback loops here. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, May 14, 2012 - Magic happens here - ERP, CRM, SAP, BPM
I’ve looked a some websites on SAP and I’ve looked at some books. So, let me close by posing a hypothesis, maybe some researcher can pick this up and explore it. I want to draw a line under the BPM/SAP mini-series of blogs. am more aware than ever about the need to learn more in this area and actually I already know more thanks to people’s responses to these blogs - a few comments and a few e-mails. hope to spend time in future finding out more about this arena and why it presents so many difficulties. And I’m hoping to see Jez Higgins talk at ACCU 2010 , Wrestling with Giants.) Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - The Joys of Parenting
Whenever I am presented with a new challenge, I like to thoroughly research it. For example, when it came to buying a house, I bought a couple of books and read up on the topic before plunging headlong. We took a course in natural childbirth and read several books on the topic. did the same thing when my wife decided to have a baby naturally. When it came to the area of child rearing, we approached the topic with the same gusto, comparing different parenting philosophies. Experience has taught me that parenting is unlike any other endeavor I have undertaken. Tony and Zuzana's World - Sunday, October 4, 2009 - Other things about SAP (which might block Agile)
First a word on TLAs, it gets confusing: BPR - Business Process Re-Engineering; where it all began (sort of), comes from a book by Hammer and Champy and was very popular in the 1990’s. In my research, I also learned that SAP have tried Agile, specifically Scrum, internally. To finish off my BPM/BPE/SAP mini-series here are some other things I learned about SAP and BPM. These might be specific to the team I encountered or they might be generic. think all of them present obstacles to doing SAP implementation Agile. Not impossible, just difficult. As you can see, it get confusing. Allan Kelly's Blog - Saturday, October 31, 2009 - Thoughts on Mind the Product conference
Marty Cagan as a keynote, I’m envious, I tried to get Marty to speak at Agile on the Beach but he was already booked of this. Things that weren’t so good Some sessions really lacked focus or content - e.g. the talk on the games industry had lots of good ideas but they were not finished, they needed more research and thinking; some of the other presentations left me wondering “what is their point?” As I mentioned in the last blog posting I was at Mind the Product last week in London. Good points That the conference was happening at all in London was perhaps the best thing for me. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 1, 2012 %>
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