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Kanban Development Oversimplified
How Kanban-style development gives us another way to deliver on Agile values

4/20/2009

Ramblin’ Preamble
Over a year ago now — Feb 25th 2008 to be exact — I wrote this draft article.
At the time Kanban development was a cool new thing — bleeding edge Agile. Due to a series of unfortunate events the article [...]

The product owner and the product-shaped hole
What the product owner needs to worry about isn’t in the product backlog

02/16/2009

If you’ve read one of my blog essays before, you know this isn’t going to be a quick thought, but a bit of a long discussion (read “discussion” as “rant”).
This particular discussion describes what I see as [...]

Agile development is more culture than process
Why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach

02/01/2009

Culture, not process

I’d been working with Josh and lots of others at his company for many months aiding with their agile adoption. Finally, things were beginning to go smoothly. [...]

The new user story backlog is a map
Why the flat user story backlog doesn’t work, and how to build a better backlog that will help you more effectively explain your system, prioritize, and plan your releases.

10/08/2008

This is Gary.
Gary and I worked together for a day to build a user story map - a better version [...]

from www.agileproductdesign.com 6/27/2008
Agile development originated from a place where user experience practice was weak

In my last blog essay I explain how I see that the type of product we build has big effect on the process we follow to build it. In the lower left of my simple 4 quadrant model I place software [...]