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| The Latest from Allan Kelly's Blog | MORE | | Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile. Could it be that the Product Owners are not sufficiently flexible in what they are asking for and are therefore setting the team up to fail each sprint? 'Consider this blog an Agile Clinic. On Friday an e-mail dropped into my mailbox asking if I could help. The sender has graciously agreed to let me share the mail and my advice with you, all anonymously of course… The sender is new to the team, new to the company, they are developing a custom web app for a client, i.e. they are an ESP or consultancy. the Developers work in sprints, estimating tasks in JIRA as they go. And yo have Jira? Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013 Requirements and Specifications 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” So now I turned to a standard textbook on requirements: Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services by Alexander and Beus-Dukis. which I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. Bear with me, I’ll come back to this point at the end.) So I turned to my bookshelves…. turned to the index and…. nothing. Which bring us back to BDD. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 Requirements whose job are they anyway? 'Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” In the extreme this means developers never get to meet, talk to or understand the people and businesses that will be using the product. However, it was another problem that was on my mind more when I thought up the talk: the confusion of roles between Business Analysts and Product Managers, made worse by the appearance of the Scrum Product Owner title. think there are a number of problems on this side of the business. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | | The Best from Allan Kelly's Blog | MORE | | Minimal Viable Team to create a Minimally Viable Product Despite being a bit of a mouthful to say “Minimal Viable Product” and the even more difficult to say “Minimally Marketable Feature” (also known as a “Quantum of Value” or “Business Value Increment”) are very useful concepts. What makes gives them killer power is that they speak to a secret belief held by many people (not just managers) that teams gold-plate development and create products with more than is needed. The same applies to product development: saying Yes to a feature is easy, saying No is hard, but unless you say No a lot more than Yes you won’t have a MVP. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 8, 2012 Product Management an open secret, a differenciator At the Skills Matter Agile Lean Kanban exchange the other week someone - sorry I missed you name - told me about a report from the BBC on Product Management. It turns out the report is from a branch of the BBC I didn’t know about, “BBC Academy” and it entitled “The State of Product Management 2010.” Its well worth reading if you have an interest in Product Management or the UK software development scene. Although I’ve not blogged about it for a while Product Management is one of my passions. In Silicon Valley there is a well developed role called the Product Manager. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Software Facts - well, numbers at least About a year ago I needed some numbers about software development - industry norms really: effectiveness, productivity, bug counts etc. It is counter productivity to invest in tools before resolving organisational and methodology issues. Productivity and quality seem to be better in object oriented languages Documentation & Bugs Producing paper documents for software development is more expensive than producing software itself Up to 400 words may be written in specification for every line of code in large systems. But he does have lots of interesting facts and numbers. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, January 14, 2011 | - More facts and figures from Capers Jones
Yes he acknowledges Agile, he even says it is the most productive approach in some circumstances but all his data and assumptions are cut through with the waterfall. Productivity Jones repeatedly states and shows how quality and productivity are related. The most productive teams have the lowest bug counts and shortest schedules. Studies show that some developers are 20 times more productivity than others, and some make 10 times as many errors as others. These numbers are very insightful but, and its a but Jones acknowledges, the data is very shaky. Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - You are not Steve Jobs (and don't try to be him)
Jobs was a perfectionist: products didn’t get launched unless he approved of them. Jobs would spurn products/employees who he didn’t think were up to scratch: if employees are loyal to the company and to you, and if you have a deep talent pool, and (perhaps) the stock-options are worth a lot you might get away with this. Apple products are simple because they lack so much, once launched they are refined and elaborated in the market. Thus we have the discipline of Product Management to help us. it is a copy). My concern is simply that Jobs was not a good role model. Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, November 18, 2011 - Heresy: My warped, crazy, wrong version of Agile
I increasingly feel that the way I interpret Agile, the practices and the processes, if different to the rest of the world. Perhaps this is just self doubt, perhaps because I started doing Agile-like-things before reading about XP or Scrum, perhaps this is because my version has always been more informed by Lean, perhaps this is because I have never achieved Certified Scrum anything status, perhaps because I’ve never worked for ThoughtWorks, perhaps because I hold and MBA (and thus have an over inflated opinion of myself) or perhaps I’m just wrong. And I believe it is wrong to pretend you can. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, February 9, 2012 - Layered burn-down charts
This company had taken the product backlog and divided it into monthly releases: November, December, January and so on. I’d like to conclude this Burn-down chart mini-series ( Burn-downs are not just for Sprints and Advice for creating burn-down ) by showing a variation on the classical burn-down chart I created with one of my Cornish clients. ve recently been advising an SOA project at another client to adopt a similar approach. What it shows are three things: First the classic burn-down, just look at the overall line declining. The contents of a release can - and would - change. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 10, 2011 - Agile elevator pitch
At some point such pitches become meaningless, you don’t know if the product will fix your software development issues, cure cancer or make you tea in the morning. My (our) entry in the Agile elevator pitch competition: “[Agile] Provides philosophy, techniques and tools to alleviate the pain of traditional development and make teams more effective thus increase your profit. Companies such as the BBC, GE Energy, Yahoo, the Financial Times, The Guardian and others have already adopted the approached.” As some people know, I’ve been doing a lot of work in Cornwall recently. Indifferent? Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - Burn-downs are not just for Sprints
Importantly there are two burn-down charts you might want to create: a Sprint burn-down and A Product Burn-down. It should be immediately obvious that these correspond to the Sprint Backlog and the Product Backlog. Product based burn-down chart which shows progress through some larger quantity of work, e.g. project, release, milestone. Superficially both types of chart look the same, the difference is in the X-axis - Sprint based charts have days, product based ones have iterations. However, I always see Product Burn-down charts as vital. Its up to you Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - How to improve a team's velocity?
Each little fix improve your productivity (velocity) a little bit. Improving code quality makes teams more productive because they spend less time wading through swamp and scratching their heads. Finally, just: Concentrate on doing a better job and the velocity, productivity and points will follow. By way of wrapping up my velocity mini-series ( Two ways to fill and iteration , Filling an iteration too well , and Velocity Targeting and Velocity Inflation ) I’m going to end with some advice on how to improve a team’s velocity. Over time these add up to big improvements. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 1, 2010 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile. Could it be that the Product Owners are not sufficiently flexible in what they are asking for and are therefore setting the team up to fail each sprint? 'Consider this blog an Agile Clinic. On Friday an e-mail dropped into my mailbox asking if I could help. The sender has graciously agreed to let me share the mail and my advice with you, all anonymously of course… The sender is new to the team, new to the company, they are developing a custom web app for a client, i.e. they are an ESP or consultancy. the Developers work in sprints, estimating tasks in JIRA as they go. And yo have Jira? Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013 A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools The data is a great asset when optimizing applications during development and potentially invaluable when diagnosing production issues. 'I’ve been working with MongoDB for a long time now. Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio ). Since then, things have changed significantly. It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. The news is good. There are many different options to choose depending on your platform and use-cases. link]. link]. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, April 22, 2013 Requirements and Specifications 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” So now I turned to a standard textbook on requirements: Discovering Requirements: How to Specify Products and Services by Alexander and Beus-Dukis. which I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. Bear with me, I’ll come back to this point at the end.) So I turned to my bookshelves…. turned to the index and…. nothing. Which bring us back to BDD. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - Product Management an open secret, a differenciator
At the Skills Matter Agile Lean Kanban exchange the other week someone - sorry I missed you name - told me about a report from the BBC on Product Management. It turns out the report is from a branch of the BBC I didn’t know about, “BBC Academy” and it entitled “The State of Product Management 2010.” Its well worth reading if you have an interest in Product Management or the UK software development scene. Although I’ve not blogged about it for a while Product Management is one of my passions. In Silicon Valley there is a well developed role called the Product Manager. Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - Minimal Viable Team to create a Minimally Viable Product
Despite being a bit of a mouthful to say “Minimal Viable Product” and the even more difficult to say “Minimally Marketable Feature” (also known as a “Quantum of Value” or “Business Value Increment”) are very useful concepts. What makes gives them killer power is that they speak to a secret belief held by many people (not just managers) that teams gold-plate development and create products with more than is needed. The same applies to product development: saying Yes to a feature is easy, saying No is hard, but unless you say No a lot more than Yes you won’t have a MVP. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 8, 2012 - Productivity Power Tools 2012 – February 2012
A new update to Productivity Power Tools 2012! This update includes a couple of bug fixes including a crashing bug in the Custom Document Tab Well on debug. Download now! Link: [link]. Download: ProPowerTools.vsix. Visual Studio 2012 DevelopMentor Courses - Monday, February 25, 2013 - Query composition with the ASP.NET Web API
12: public Product Get( int id). Loading the products with the original URL returns exactly the same result as before. This request “ [link] ” returns only product 11 to 15 ordered by the product name. Having the ASP.NET Web API as a REST service returning data is kind of nice but to be efficient on the wire we don’t want to return more data that required only to discard it in the client. As we have seen in a previous post just returning a collection data was real easy. As it turns out changing the service so the client can filter data is almost just as easy. 13: {. The Problem Solver - Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - EF4 compared to NHibernate
On the other side, NH is a much a more mature ORM product than EF and has better batching capabilities. It is also more extensible, especially as an open-source product. The end result will be greater parity between the two products going forward, making the choice even more challenging and determined mostly by philosophical and strategic factors. Last week while teaching my new LINQ and Entity Framework course I got a question asking me to compare EF4 with NHibernate. Not having worked extensively with NHibernate, I wasn’t in a position to address the question. Tony and Zuzana's World - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 %>
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