Posts Tagged ‘agile’

Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

This article summarizes research that a group did into Web application design practices. Web application design teams that have a shared understanding of a project’s context and objectives produce better results.

We did not find any correlation with user satisfaction and those teams with the most specialized team members, one way or the other: some teams [...]

How often do web projects really fail?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Quick: guess the failure rate, and name the top factors named as the cause of it.

I was trying to find out about failure rates on software projects. There have been lots of stats on big IT initiatives, but not on pure web. Here’s a blog from 2008 that summarizes a web-focused study.

Given this info, which [...]

An Agile Flash Card Deck

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

This blog has been very interesting. I have definitely not read all of the posts, and some of the flash cards are more appropriate to our workplace than others, but in general if you have some spare time, this is a good set of things to read about.

I’m providing a link to [...]

Post about Agile Process’s heritage at Toyota

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

This was an interesting post from Martin Fowler.

Agile Vs. Lean

This is more background information and pointers to other people to read for more information. This is my first experience reading about Lean Manufacturing and figured I’d raise it up for others to see.

Agile Project Management Software

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

There is a new post on InfoQ about a software package that appears to try to deal with all the “spreadsheets, bug trackers, emails and homegrown time-tracking tools to manage Agile development projects.”

Here is the article.

ProjectCards

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

During a panel discussion at SDWest one of the presenters (Josh Kerievsky) mentioned ProjectCards as the PM tool he uses for Agile projects that were being done with non-co-located teams. Benefits they cited were:

Desktop app: no cludgey web based interface. nice performance and interface
Easy to manage backlog and sprints (drag/drop)

It looks like they [...]