Who are your Users?
I’ve wanted to write this post for a while, and reading “Metaphors we live by” has given me some language and ideas to express it in. So here goes. Requirements come from above In a straw-man Waterfall...
View ArticleThe Five Whos
Many of the companies I visit start with much the same problem: the development team aren’t collaborating effectively either internally or with the business, so they would like to adopt Agile, or...
View ArticleBDD Before The Tools
Another client approached me today about BDD and using tools like Cucumber to automate scenarios. There are a few things I’d love to teams see develop as a focus before heading down the tools path. You...
View ArticleDiscrete vs. Continous Capabilities
Warning: really long post. More of an article. This is a reasonably new and barely tested train of thought, so all feedback is most welcome! Also I do not know as much as I’d like about Ops, so please...
View ArticleGoals vs. Capabilities
Every project worth doing has a vision, and someone who’s championed that vision and fought for the budget. That person is the primary stakeholder. (This person is the real product owner; anyone else...
View ArticleOn Multiple Givens, Whens and Thens
I wrote this as a reply to user RHarris’s question on StackOverflow, but thought it might be easier to find here too. The login scenario and the access record here are adapted from their question. What...
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