A couple of weeks back one of my clients migrated thousands of users onto their platform and things went wrong badly. Everything worked, it was just to slow to support their needs. I’m not going to expand to much on the detail as I want to keep everyone anonymous.…
Yesterday we had a company team day where @jacdevos [http://www.twitter.com/jacdevos] and I, along with our new team members @pretorh [http://www.twitter.com/pretorh] and @reinhardholl [http://www.twitter.com/reinhardholl], revisited nReality’s values, philosophy, mission statement and operation plan. We decided to make the…
The most common problem software teams face is that they struggle to define stable unambiguous requirements for their software products. This is something I've observed in small start-ups of ten and multi-national organisations of tens-of-thousands. The wrong hammer This issue typically, manifests by a high rate of features that are…
This is a backdated post that links to the video and slides of my Agile Africa 2013 talk for reference purposes. Beyond hype and dogma: How South African teams increased their value During this session Martin will share stories on how different South African teams improved their value through applying…