Turning fixed price contracts into a win-win situation
Continuing our three part series about contracts and agile software development, here is part 2 about how to handle the fixed price environment that most of us work in today: If you are an agile...
View ArticleLean contracts and cooperation
The last part in our three part series about agile development and contracts will provide a glimpse into the future by looking at how thought leaders have managed contracts to foster cooperation...
View ArticleCo-located teams
One of the best ways to get started with an effort to get more agile is to co-locate teams, creating “war-rooms” for them to work in. Studies like this show that co-locating teams at least doubles...
View ArticleMove fast, travel light
Traditionally developed software does not age gracefully. In fact, on average, it only takes about five years for newly developed software to deteriorate to a state where it is no longer economically...
View ArticleWho’s got the power?
Who has got the most power over your team? Is it your manager, or perhaps your local tech guru? Well…probably not! Not if you picked a reasonably motivated individual anyway… According to team building...
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Cake-mix and improving life at work
In the early 1950′s, cake mix was introduced in the U.S. Take some mix, add water, and put it in the oven. In ten minutes you had a homemade cake. Great idea, right? It wasn’t. Really bad idea...
View ArticleDon’t send people to my Scrum Master classes
The other day a manager called me and asked if I would recommend sending one of his people to one of my Professional Scrum Master classes. I told him no. Actually I asked him a few questions about...
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Working for free, refusing to go on holiday – the future of software...
Tomorrow I’m meeting up with 25 students from Chalmers University. Their peers have taken off for Easter holidays, but my group has instead paid a $100 fee to remain in school for two more days....
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There are no meetings in Scrum!
Well isn’t that great? Your team is now supposed to do Scrum and now there is another set of meetings cutting into the time you would rather use to actually get something done. In popularity,...
View ArticleNew Version of Retrospectives – Getting Started
Today I did some edits and added some new stuff to my paper on how to get started with retrospectives. If you have not seen it, it is a hands-on example on how to do it with lots of tips for the Scrum...
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