Category: Agile

24
Feb

Management by walking around

Published by adil in Agile, Productivity 8 comments

Tweet Easily, one of the most fun parts of my job is management by walking around (MBWA).  It’s not just fun, but its also quite effective as a tool in leading organizations.  My experience, however, is that its an underutilized tactic.  And for those of us who do it, its one of the easiest things to ‘bump off the schedule’ for something seemingly more important. A brief history “Management by Wandering Around” is a term that → Read More

2
Dec

Kanban and Agile Software Development — Part 3

Published by adil in Agile, Development Reply

Tweet Where we left off In the introductory Kanban post, I provided some background on Kanban and in Part 2, I went on to discuss several ways Agile and Kanban have been put into practice together, including examples of some of the several different ‘flavors’ of Kanban being used in software development. Now I want to discuss some of the key tradeoffs that might occur in using Kanban systems for agile development, leave you with → Read More

22
Nov

Kanban and Agile Software Development — Part 2

Published by adil in Agile, Development 1 comment

Kanban and Agile Software Development — Part 2

Tweet Where we left off In the introductory Kanban post, I provided some background on Kanban in order to give you some context for how Kanban might be used in an agile software development environment. Now I want to provide some insight on how Kanban is currently being used with agile and why I think the idea of doing so holds some merit. In Part 1, I mentioned that Kanban and Agile share some basic → Read More

16
Nov

Kanban and Agile Software Development — Part 1

Published by adil in Agile, Development 3 comments

Kanban and Agile Software Development — Part 1

Tweet I’ve never made it a secret that I am a fan of agile management practices, both inside and outside of software development.  Historically, however, two things within the agile space have always been a little bit frustrating to me: First, folks too often view different flavors of agile as competitive instead of complementary.  I hear questions like, “What’s better?  Scrum or XP?” Secondly, there aren’t that many great resources for learning about the practical → Read More

20
Oct

The Right Way to Fight

Published by adil in Agile, Product Management, Productivity Reply

Tweet The term ‘conflict’ typically carries with it negative connotation.  But it’s something I have been thinking a lot about lately, and I feel like conflict is not necessarily a bad thing.  As our company continues to grow at a very rapid trajectory, there are lots of new faces, roles, and even whole organizations.  Managing the responsibilities and roles during the growth has been a challenge, to say the least.  The reality, however, is that → Read More

15
Oct

Throw out your product specs…

Published by adil in Agile, Development, Product Management, UX 3 comments

Tweet I don’t like requirements documents. There, I said it.  I’ve been thinking about this latently for a number of months now, but all of this thinking really caught up with me this weekend.  We’ve been thinking a lot lately about evolving our product management practices and there are no shortage of opinions around the office and from experts in the community.  As such, I’ve tried to do a lot of listening, reading, learning, and → Read More

14
Oct

Magma rails is happening right now :)

Published by adil in Agile, Development Reply

Magma rails is happening right now :)

Tweet I am thrilled to see the agenda for Magma Rails coming together.   I have a real sense of pride in the fact that I helped start the company (Crowd Interactive) that is putting on the first ever Ruby on Rails conference in Mexico!  What’s more is that it really looks like it is going to be a great conference. Some amazingly talented people will be giving talks there, and I am happy to → Read More

6
Oct

Product Management vs Interaction Design

Published by adil in Agile, Creative, Product Management Reply

Tweet One of the questions that gets escalated to me most often these days is some permutation of, “What is the difference between product management and interaction design?”   It is particularly hard to answer questions like “where does one end and the other begin?”  These are not simple questions to answer because the roles do have some overlap and it is important that both of these roles collaborate closely in any organization. Before I → Read More

24
Sep

Hedonistic pricing and the problem of shared cost..

Published by adil in Agile Reply

Tweet I was reading this great blog post about the problems with estimating business value by Mike Cohn, and found that it identified a problem that has been nascent in my mind for a little while now. I won’t summarize the whole blog post here (you should just go read it!), but I will talk about how it gets me to thinking. We’ve recently started our company-wide steering committee process, and I have had a → Read More

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