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Getting To Know Your Customers – The Interview Process

Posted in Change, Consulting, Emotional Intelligence, Software Development, Teamwork, tagged , , , on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago I spent 3 days at a customer site getting to “know” them.   It was a positive experience,  so I thought it might be a good idea to go through what I was trying to accomplish, and what you should prepare for when you go on site.
First and foremost you need to be [...]

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How do you know you’re developing what your customers want?

Posted in Change, Software Development on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I spent an hour last week talking to a couple of developers who are the main people behind a particular product.  I won’t name the product or the company, but let’s just say I have been personally working with this product on site with many different clients for the better part of 8 years.  The [...]

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Software is Emergent 3 Part Introduction to Scrum

Posted in Agile, Change, Software Development, Video on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Introduction to Agile / Scrum Development By Rob Dempsey.
Part 1
Your organization must change in order to gain the full effect of Agile.   If your organization will not change, you will not improve, and Agile is not for you.
In a nutshell here is the Scrum process.
Product Back Log -> Release Planning -> Sprint Cycle -> Increment [...]

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Working Smarter, Videos on Agile

Posted in Agile, Change, Video on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I recently was perusing YouTube and found a bunch of really good videos on the Agile development process… here are some of the better highlights
This is a bit over the top, but it does show some very important aspects of the Agile method.

Agile fights against depreciation of software.
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Software Development Is Not Like Building a Car – Part III

Posted in Agile, Change, Software Development on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

When implementing a project whose team is made up of customer employees, and vendor consultants, there are to be honest many competing agendas in forming that team.  The customer wishes to keep costs down, and utilize the consultants for as few hours as possible and still get the job done.   The Vendor wants their consultants [...]

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