Chickens, Pigs & Seagulls
Posted by David Bland in agile, scrum on June 10, 2009
Those of you with Scrum & Agile experience are probably familiar with the following story: A chicken and a pig are together when the chicken says, “Let’s start a restaurant!”. The pig thinks it over and says, “What would we call this restaurant?” The chicken says, “Ham n’ Eggs!” The pig says, “No thanks, I’d [...]
10 Agile Gurus to Follow on Twitter
Posted by David Bland in agile, twitter on June 5, 2009
Twitter is more than a sounding board for Cats, it can very helpful for keeping up to date on the latest Agile trends. This is especially true when you find Agile Gurus sending over nuggets of information ranging anywhere from designing the next JUnit release, to where they’ll be presenting next week. While you can [...]
Cut the MS Project Cord Already
Posted by David Bland in agile, tools on May 22, 2009
In a recent discussion over on the AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com Blog, I raised my concerns about the mind boggling need for expert MS Project skills in Agile/Scrum job postings. Laszlo Szalvay’s response was an enlightening one: I think of the top 3 agile tools on the market (v1, scrumworks and rally) only ScrumWorks does not have a [...]
Eric Ries #LeanStartup on Youtube
Posted by David Bland in lean on May 11, 2009
I highly recommend the recent Eric Ries Webinar on Lean Startups. They’ve uploaded it to YouTube, and Eric is now accepting registrations for his Lean Startup Tutorials. (Almost Sold Out!)
My Response to the V1 Blog
Posted by David Bland in agile, lean, scrum on May 11, 2009
My comment over on the V1 Blog is pending moderation, but I wanted to expand upon it here in the meantime. You could run an Agile / Scrum / Kanban project to flawless execution and it could still result in waste. You could be achieving failure in an extremely efficient manner due to no customer [...]
