Card sorting is a simple and useful way to gather feedback on which features people want in a new system, which problems they want solve or generally speaking, what they want.
So I was surprised recently when some business analysts I was working with had not heard of the technique and I thought I would describe it here so they can look at it again.
All you need is something people want and a pile of cards to sort:
I was running a course recently and we were talking about the challenge of scaling “agile.”
Nearly everyone agreed it was really hard and that we needed organisational alignment and support from the top.
But one person disagreed. He asked me if I had seen the following TED talk:
Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff
Continue reading “A different view on scaling agile in your enterprise”
I have been involved in a lot of conversations about the meaning of “business agility” lately and there is a lot of focus on “Reducing our time to value.”
Continue reading “Automation can improve your time to disappointment”
I just wrote a couple of entries on “velocity” and now I want to look at some of the implications of using it.
Here I will be looking at how we interpret velocity and how we can use it. In particular I will be looking at how it relates to concepts such as “done”, “regression testing” and “showcases.”
Continue reading “Velocity is great but meaningless on its own”
I recently got asked if I have any examples of things to hand over to a production support team when doing an agile project.
I guess, in fact, it doesn’t matter if you are handing over to someone else or supporting something yourself when you go live. Either way you want something to refer back to.
James King 