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Can you do Agile with Difficult People?
With all due respect to the difficult people in my life, I am going to share my experiences of dealing with difficult people in Agile projects. Some of my dearest friends are classified as difficult people. Why deal with difficult … Continue reading
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Only pigs can talk – Architecture Review Board Rules
I’ve recently been writing about Architecture Review Boards and how they might work in an enterprise moving towards Agile. A key challenge to implement Agile in a large enterprise IT environment is addressing the enterprise requirements for oversight by Enterprise … Continue reading
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Rather than gold silver bronze express qualities empirically
While I was attending the vForum in Sydney a short time back, I was watching a demonstration of some very cool infratructure provisioning system. The idea as you know is to abstract away the complexity of infrastructure setup and replace … Continue reading
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Scrum your ARB (Architecture Review Board)
This post is one in a series focused on Implementing Agile in a Waterfall Enterprise on-going writings on the experiences of moving from Waterfall to Agile. What is an Architecture Review Board (ARB) An Architecture Review Board (ARB) is an … Continue reading
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Implementing Agile in a Waterfall Enterprise
Have you ever found yourself in a waterfall enterprise, but needing to use Agile Methodology? I am currently working at a large banking institution that has adopted a traditional waterfall based project governance or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) . … Continue reading
What really matters about Agile
I came across this post recently on BigVisible’s Blog and I really like it because it re-focuses us on the why we started looking at Agile in the first place. He says: There are two things we ought to be … Continue reading
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Monitoring the Cloud
Yesterday I was having a beer with a friend who is CIO of an Australian stock broker. We were chatting about strategies for adopting cloud computing in financial markets. We spoke about many of the usual topics of cost savings, … Continue reading
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Agile disciplines in architecture: Test Driven Architecture
By using Test Driven Archtiecture, you can achieve the same benefits of Test Driven Development in your Technical Architecture and arguably more. CIO’s, don’t wait until you’ve got irate business customers yelling over the phone about performance problems. If you apply Test Driven Architecture, not only would you have discovered issues before going live, you’d have in place the facility to continually monitor and verify that your architecture is still delivery as promissed. Continue reading
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Some people would rather work alone on estimates than be Agile
A short time back, I was engaged in early stages of estimating the effort for integration of Calypso. When I got involved in the project, a team of Business Analysts had been working individually on Business Requirements Documents (BRD) describing … Continue reading
Just tested Turnkey Linux Hub – it’s great!
The folks at Turnkey Linux have launched their Private Beta for The Hub. The Hub makes it dead easy to provision a new VM on Amazon EC2 and deploy any Turnkey Linux virtual appliance that you choose. Including the setup … Continue reading
