What is Velocity? In our regular lives, we generally think of velocity as speed. (Except for physicists, who know velocity is speed plus direction). In the U.S., speed is usually expressed as miles …
It’s Not Software – Can I Use Agile?
Yes. And no. It depends on how you define agile. In the broadest sense, agile methods work by splitting your delivery into small batches and working on one batch at a time. The team or …
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The Agile Fluency Game
Last week, I attended an excellent workshop given by James Shore, Diana Larsen, and Adam Light to learn how to use the Agile Fluency Game. The Agile Fluency Game simulates the adoption of agile by …
Seven Wastes of Software Development – or Not
The seven wastes of Lean were originally used by Taiichi Ohno to categorize common sources of waste in a manufacturing process. A manufacturing process involves regular, fairly predictable chunks …
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