Archive for the ‘Agile XP’ Category

Offshore Agile

I’ve never been a fan of offshore development. I’ve never been a fan of distributed development. I lose patience if the development team can’t see the customer, let alone live in a different building or city. I’ve had first hand experience of moving to an offshore model from both my time at British Airways and […]

Lean From The Top…

…XP from the bottom.
It’s been an age since I’ve posted. I’ve been distracted by a hectic few months of work, a big chunk of leave and the new Led Zeppelin biography (which is awesome!). From now on I should be getting back into my regular posting pattern of at least a post a week.
I thought […]

Reflections on Agile 2008

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to spend a week in Toronto at the Agile 2008 conference. Here’s my summary of proceedings…
Agile 2008 Summary

Something like 62% of the attendee’s were new to Agile.
The race is on to monetise Agile! Oh dear.
The Agile community is growing both in terms of expertise and adoption.
There were […]

Lean vs Agile

I’m currently lucky enough to be on the road delivering Lean presentations to industry in a number of our key cities (Hong Kong, Beijing, London, Manchester, New York, Chicago, San Francisco - details on the ThoughtWorks website). I’ll write more about the presentations and the people I’m meeting soon - I want to talk about […]

Reading List

I’ve added a reading list to the site accessible through the main navigation in the top bar. The list isn’t intended to be a comprehensive list of all things Agile and Lean. Instead I’ve tried to capture what I think are the most valuable books around on the topics covered in this site. Here’s a […]

Agile Glossary

I’ve published my first cut of an Agile Glossary. You can navigate to it from the main menu at the top of the site or you can go directly by clicking this link ‘Agile Glossary‘.
Let me know of anything missing or anything you think I should include. My reading list and an area to share […]

Agile XP

The history of Agile XP really begins in the lean production movement inspired and led by Toyota. For more information on the history of lean I recommend you start with my previous post on Lean Software Development. If you got here by accident when you were looking for ‘the PRINCE2 operational handbook’ then I suggest […]