Tag Archives: Agile

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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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

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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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Starting The Agile Architect

What’s an architect to do when the team goes Agile? The Agile Architect is a project I’ve started with with Peter Wennerstein of Icon Innovations.   The inspiration came when the leaders on the project I’m working on decided we were … Continue reading

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Agile in a Waterfall Enterprise – Agile and PMP

If you’ve been working in software development and system implementation for large enterprises like I have, you can probably relate to the tension between knowing that Agile approaches really do have good results, but the governance processes of the enterprise … Continue reading

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Maybe it’s time to apply Agile principles to Data Warehouse

Stop spending so much time trying to find the ultimate Data Model for your Data Warehouse so that you won’t have to change it in the future. You know even if you found the perfect data model for the business today, the business will change and you’re going to spend too much time comparing reference models or pay too much money for one.
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