Spec by Example workshop in London – June 18-19
The best course I’ve attended in my career. I loved that the instructor challenged us to think for ourselves and did not give us the answers straight away – Trond Svensen, SITS
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The Billboard over Moscow
Posted on February 10, 2010 | 4 CommentsEffective prioritisation is key to delivering value with a software project. The MoSCoW model, splitting features into Must have, Should have, Could have and Would like (really Won’t have), theoretically does the trick. However, I found it very hard to apply in practice – too many things end up in... -
Building software that matters: two books you absolutely have to read
Posted on January 18, 2010 | 1 CommentI recently came across two books that fit the Building software that matters theme perfectly, and deserve to be read by anyone managing a software project, running a development team or generally serious about delivering software. Both books tackle topics so difficult that development teams often just push the responsibility... -
Building software that matters, part two
Posted on December 10, 2009 | No CommentsThis week at the XPDay 09 conference in London, I facilitated a discussion on practices, ideas and tools that help us focus on building software that matters. We started by quickly going over the conclusions from a similar workshop held in august during the Alt.NET UK conference. We then started... -
Building software that matters
Posted on August 3, 2009 | 3 CommentsWe had a fantastic discussion on delivering value with software yesterday at Alt.NET UK, centred around two proposed topics: “From concept to cash” and “Building software that matters”. Starting with questions on how do we get to cash quicker, how do we make sure that we’re building the most valuable...
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