Which Agile Method? Some Considerations
Hi, We are not here to do agile, we are here to deliver technology solutions to help our businesses realise opportunities, strengthen weaknesses and fend off threats. We use agile tools to achieve this. If you and your team are unable to deliver, then it doesn’t matter how good your "agile" capability is, you’re failing to meet your primary objective. A few years ago, I was working on a project with a number of issues and lots of noise and luckily for me, Ken Schwaber was working with us at Conchango at the time. When I talked to him about some of these project issues he gave me some priceless advice... “...just get the software out of the door!” This is the essential part... if you keep delivering stuff, you’re helping the business and adding value. Too many so called “agile” developers focus on how “well” agile is being done rather than how much value is being created for the business. Recently, our programme adopted Kanban for a period of time to solve a particular phase o...