James King

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  • A different view on scaling agile in your enterprise

    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

  • Automation can improve your time to disappointment

    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.”

  • Velocity is great but meaningless on its own

    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…

  • Quick notes on handing over knowledge

    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…

  • What does a velocity chart look like in an agile team?

    In my last article I gave a brief description of “velocity” and how I might use it in a training course.  I ended up measuring progress in “coffee points.” This allowed me to plan my training topics and to share our progress during the day with the students in the class so we could continuously…

  • Understanding velocity – setting the scene

    Velocity is possibly the most used, most loved and most misunderstood measure in agile projects.  You will often see a rough chart like this one near your local agilistas … or you might find that they have a beautiful electronic version. But what is velocity and how do people use it?

  • A mechanical approach for a BA on an agile project

    Recently I wrote a mechanical guide for testers on agile projects, but what about business analysts?

  • A mechanical guide to testing on agile projects

    Testers keep telling me that testing is not just about breaking things.  They also tell me that they are there to help the team think rather than just point out the dumb things they have done in the last sprint. That’s probably all true.  But I have been asked by someone to give them a…

  • What do testers do on agile projects?

    I was just talking to someone who is on the journey towards the good life in agile.   But in their early projects they have hit a snag. It seems that the testers want to record lots of bugs in their log so they can show them to their friends. They also want to talk…

  • A good video on Jobs to Be Done

    We all want to be more customer focused and closer to the customer.  All that sounds great, but it assumes that we have some idea of who the customer is and what they want. So maybe we should list our customers by customer segment.  Let’s see – I am James and I am a customer…