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...
Category: Agile
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
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
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
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...
Don’t Roast IDS Alive, Yet!
This is not going to be a populist view, but we need to have some sympathy with The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and his team who are trying to manage a...
Has Agile Hit A Glass Ceiling?
Has the implementation of Agile within the software and IT sector hit a glass ceiling? This could be one of the conclusions from a new, in-depth academic Agile study conducted by a team at...
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...
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...
Agile Process Improvement and the ‘Methodology’ Behind It!
We focus on Agile process improvement, but one of the Storm consultants came up with a very interesting point about one of our other well used phrases: methodology. Now, Russ Lewis, the leader of...
This is Agile Project Management, and it’s not about software
Agile is only for Small Software Projects – Myth Busted! Joe Justice tells the story of how he applied Agile (Lean and Scrum) project management techniques to achieve the impossible. When the audience realises that he...
Agile Business Analysis Course – Pilot Run in LA
Last month we ran the beta of Learning Tree’s brand new course for BAs in Los Angeles. It was originally called Business Analysis in an Agile environment, then we decided to change it...
