Monthly Archives: March 2019

Handover/task switching

March 26, 2019 · by · in Agile Principles, Feature Teams, Value · Leave a comment

Let’s imagine that an Agile team are working on an iteration and then towards the end of this iteration one of the team (let’s call them Fred) becomes unavailable, maybe through sickness or perhaps they need time off for a family emergency – what do you do? It largely will depend on how transferable the […]

Over-engineering

March 12, 2019 · by · in Agile Principles, Backlog Management, Value · Leave a comment

If you’ve ever seen a cartoon where all the person wanted was a simple swing with a tyre on the end of a rope and after going through the classic waterfall phases of development the end result is a chair hanging from two branches of a tree in such a way that the trunk of […]

Non-used talent

March 7, 2019 · by · in Agile Critical Path, Value · Leave a comment

Imagine that we’ve got a highly qualified nuclear scientist making the tea – that’s what I think of when trying to picture this as waste. But then two other thoughts enter my mind – why? and how do you measure this? There are things that we all have to do that may seem to be […]