Slightly behind schedule, but can Agile always be 100% on track?
My project is coming to an end and we are having to extend a further couple of sprints to meet the MVP (minimum viable product).
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Forming connections: integrating in the Agile World
Posted by:
Ian Tress and Chris Thompson, Posted on:
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Agile, Solution Design and Innovation
In the past couple of years two of the key software development programmes within the Agency have switched from a traditional outsourced, waterfall-led arrangement, to a much more agile, internally controlled framework.
Delivery Manager diary: I got the job
Back in January, I started a secondment as a Delivery Manager. Here’s a little note to update you all on my progress. I know I haven’t blogged in little while, there was a period of purdah and some personal holiday …
The Data Modelling Trilogy: Agile Data Modelling or Data Modelling in an Agile project
The SFA has recently made the move from waterfall to agile. So how do you adapt data modelling for a Agile project? What one produces and why one produces it doesn’t change, but how it gets produced does. Agile data modelling still …
The transformation of testing at the SFA
As a group of testers, over the past year or so we have been assessing, discussing, researching, learning and refining how we transition from a traditional waterfall approach, to providing an agile service. As with most organisations, we used to …
Am I a CAT? (Certified Agile Tester)
Last week I attended a Certified Agile Tester (CAT) course. Testing is not an area I'm too involved in, but it gave me a lot of extra detail on Agile ways of working and firmed up my current knowledge. The course …
Playing together, nicely.
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Tim Marlow, Posted on:
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Agile, Delivery Management, Projects, Solution Design and Innovation
What’s the common factor between ITIL, Agile, MSP, TOGAF and the GDS framework? The answer is that each of them assumes that their person leads the conversation between the business and the work being done. The architect is ‘god’ in …
A retrospective, retrospective - what should be covered?
As part of continuous improvement within Agile teams, retrospectives are held at the end of each sprint. In these meetings we get a chance to discuss what went well and badly, and agree some actions needed to improve things. I …
Can an Agile tool have too many features?
Earlier this week I was made aware that a Project Manager working on an Agile project was having problems with completing / projecting a Burn Up chart. I was asked if I could do some research and find a simple …
How do you divert a waterfall..?
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Simon Swinburne, Posted on:
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Agile, Apprenticeships exemplar, Solution Design and Innovation
...the same way you eat an elephant, in manageable chunks. The Find an Apprenticeship exemplar is the catalyst that is helping the Skills Funding Agency to embrace the Agile methodology.