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Learning over Planning

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Owner Affinity Model for Information Management

The Owner Affinity Model for Information Management very simply means, keep the information close to the owner.  The Owner Affinity Model seeks to resolve the problem of quality and semantics that occurs with a centralised Data Warehouse. The Owner Affinity Model states … Continue reading

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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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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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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

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Introducing The Agile Architect Project

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Scrum: Making Friends with the Three Amigos

A week back I attended the Agile Aliance meeting here in Sydney and enjoyed two great presentations.  The first was by Andrew Walker who presented on how to sell Scrum to an executive.  The second was Ben Hogan of AgileBen.com … Continue reading

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Dialogue over Diagrams

Agile Architect Manifesto Borrowing from the Agile Manifesto – We are uncovering better ways to architect software by doing it and helping others do it.  Through this work we have come to value: Dialogue over Diagrams While there is value … Continue reading

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