It’s your life, UTrack it!

I’m not one for endorsing products but this particular tool is a life changer. I downloaded UTrack onto my iPhone and loved the application to the last ‘byte’ Being an agile fiend I like to do my day to day chores in-line with the agile mindset, and UTrack allows me to do just that! UTrack [...]

If you can’t beat ‘em… burn ‘em!

A lot has been discussed about which mode of reporting and tracking progress in Agile projects is better… Burning points up or down. In my opinion Lee Richardson hits the nail on the head in his article.  Agile projects traditionally use burndown charts to visually show work remaining over time. This could be for the current iteration [...]

What Agile is NOT: New!!!

After I started my series of blog posts on Agile and it’s need in the current software development ecosystem I started receiving a lot of emails and comments saying what you are talking about isn’t new, we have been ‘following’ agile for a long time… etc etc. Well, I’m not sure what the argument is [...]

I want everything.

As a business analyst when you ask the customer what he wants in his custom built application his response is always either “I’m not too sure, but I have a general idea” or “I want everything”. Both are vague and generic answers and don’t leave much for you to base your project plan on. What [...]

Agile readiness: Ready or not, here I come.

“If you take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” — Matrix Converting from one religion, ideology or methodology to another is a [...]

I shall resist change… *crack* oops!

Referring to one of my earlier blog posts where I talked about how Agile welcomes change… today I would like to elaborate on WHY Agile tries to inculcate a mindset that accepts constant change using real life examples. Have you ever, at any point in time during your lives, heard some of these phrases: – [...]

Nothing but chaos? Anything but.

I love Dilbert! Some of the strips are really ‘in your face’ type and this is surely one of ‘em. It is true though, if you do not know a lot about Agile (except for stories from people who’ve tried and failed at it), from a distance it would seem that it’s just development of [...]

The Agile Manifesto:

I just wanted to share the agile manifesto with all of you because I’d be referring to it quite often while talking about various agile practices and real-life project management experiences. The gurus of the software development world said the following: “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others [...]