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Targeting Your Investment in Agile

Targeting Your Investment in Agile

Guest post by Alan O’Callaghan I recently had the great privilege of attending a two-day Product Owners’ Survival Camp in London, organized by Gojko Adjic, Dave Evans, Christian Hassa and Chris Matts. Over lunch...

Agile Dishwasher Etiquette

Agile Dishwasher Etiquette

Halfway through one of Storm’s Agile scrums and a discussion develops on dishwasher etiquette. It arose because one of the team’s children introduced a new house rule about the dishwasher. The 9 year old...

Old Code – Don’t You Just Love It?

Old Code – Don’t You Just Love It?

Yesterday I saw RPG code for the very first time. It was quite a beautiful sight with columns of code neatly lined-up; green characters against a black background. This is code in the literal...

Stand by Your Agile Beds

Stand by Your Agile Beds

Oh dear, another day, another Government IT fiasco. Perhaps some members of the Government would benefit from our Agile training courses (tongue firmly in cheek)! There is always a sense of déjà vu when...

Have An Agile 2014

Have An Agile 2014

Looking forward at the start of the year is always a tricky thing to do and 2014 will see the inevitable march towards increased certification within the Agile sector (whether we agree, or not),...

You may be far more agile than you realised

You may be far more agile than you realised

How was your first client meeting of the year? Mine did not go according to plan. We’d arranged the meeting just at the end of last year knowing full-well that it was going to...

What is Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban?

So what is Scrum? Is this an obscure reference to rugby union, or something more profound! And how does it relate to Agile Process Improvement? Scrum is a prescribed set of practices (within the...

Russ Lewis

What is Agile?

As you can imagine, we get the question, what is Agile, a lot at Storm Consulting. So, here we go. Agile is a movement started in 2001 by 17 software professionals; smart people like...

Accidental Learning

Accidental Learning

As a panelist at a recent conference we were asked about continuous professional development CPD. I felt that some people are naturally pre-disposed to learning and will do naturally. Since the audience comprised paying...

UML / BPMN Reference Charts

UML / BPMN Reference Charts

When I teach BPMN I like to hand out this poster BPMN-2 Poster as reference. I particularly like the way the “Berliner BPM-Offensive” describes the use of the gateways: When splitting…. When joining… You can get the...