In the previous post I wrote about how trust was key to getting the most from your agile teams. In this post we’ll continue looking through the Lieutenant Commander’s finding from his paper “Communicating Intent and Imparting Presence“. The Lieutenant Commander ran and experiment to test the doctrine of the Commander’s Intent. The iterative approach [...]
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Agile teams need to iterate
October 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Agile
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Agile Teams need to be trusted
September 27th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Agile
A highly complex and uncertain environment requires decision making to be distributed to the team so that teams can dynamically adapt to new situations
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Does Agile Software Development Prevent Rounded Products?
June 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Agile, Agile Bench, Product Development
On Saturday the Agile Bench team attended Product Camp Sydney. The Brainmates crew did a spectacular job getting the whole event together and promoting it so well that close to 100 people attended. My favourite part was that everyone participated, the feeling was relaxed and most importantly, it was fun. I was fortunate enough to rack [...]
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Product Camp Sydney 2011 for Agile Product Managers and friends
May 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Agile, Product Development
We love unconferences. They are dynamic, fluid, relaxed, fun and informative. A lot less stuffy and formal that regular conferences or user groups / meetups. Product Camp (or PCamp for those in the know) Sydney is being held on the 4th of June at the Brainmates offices and provides a place for product professionals to [...]
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Agile Project Management
January 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Agile
Agile Project Management is a peculiar phrase. Many people on project teams, mainly people in delivery roles, believe that traditional project management approaches and agile practices do not play well together. The argument goes that if you have a plan, then you’ve decided what to do. If you’ve decided what to do then you are [...]
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What to do with software bugs?
January 17th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Agile
You can’t have software bugs on work that isn’t finished.
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Talking without meaning at stand up
November 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Agile, Stand Up
Stand-ups (or Daily Scrums) are a great way for the entire team to coordinate work and synchronize daily efforts. Since you have the whole team involved it is in everyone interest to keep these meetings short and valuable so that you are using everyone’s time wisely. A very common stand-up anti-pattern has each member of [...]
Introducing the Agile Bench API
October 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Agile, Agile Bench, Technology
Have you ever had the hankering to have your project management system integration with your version management system? Do you have a incident management system like Zen Desk or an accounting system like Xero that you’d like to tie into Agile Bench? Here is the good news! We are opening up our API and we [...]
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Agile and Product Management
October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Agile, Product Development
Agile should be the product managers friend, but at times it can feel like you’ve lost all control especially when you can’t work on product development 100% of the time because of all the other things you have to get done. So what should you do, do you hand off your other responsibilities to the [...]
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Can Agile Work With UX
September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Agile, Product Development
We find this is one of the most common questions asked within the companies we have worked and with the people in our teams. The typical view of agile is that its all about hacking the code, no documentation and developers going off and doing their own thing, whereas with UX and User Centred Design [...]