Jazzon 2011, Day 3 – Turning up the heat – techniques for self-organizing...
Turning up the heat – techniques for self-organizing teams - Joseph Pelrine Joseph reminded us that teams always organize themselves, if we want it or not. Those social forces are pretty strong which...
View ArticleJazoon 2012: Agile Chartering: Energize Every Project Liftoff
In her talk “Agile Chartering: Energize Every Project Liftoff,” Diana Larsen presented approaches how you can set up your agile projects. Why is that important? When a rocket is launched into space, a...
View ArticleSoftware Development Costs
I’ve prepared a small presentation to give an overview of software development costs. This diagram describes the costs/gain per feature. Complexity Curve The most simple curve, complexity, is easy to...
View ArticleSoftware Development Costs: Bugfixing
(Second part of three; first part is here) Software has bugs – there simply is no way to avoid them. If you can’t avoid them, maybe you can handle them efficiently? Yes, you can: As you can see, the...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – User Storytelling: The Lost Art of User Stories
In her talk “User Storytelling: The Lost Art of User Stories“, Ulrika Park (blog, slides on slideshare) made a case to become aware of the spreading practice of “snapshot user stories.” As an example...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – How To Do Kick-Ass Software Development
One of the most important aspects of agile is to notice your problems and solve them. How? A good strategy is to look what others did. In “How To Do Kick-Ass Software Development,” Sven Peters shares...
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