Category Archives: Project Management

Iterations, increments or Sprints ?

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Shine Technologies

So what’s in a name … ? Does it matter what you call your chunks of work ? In many ways it doesn’t – different people use the terms inter-changeably. Sprint is specifically a Scrum term, XP tends to use … Continue reading →

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Beauty and the Beast…

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Shine Technologies

One of the challenges working in a consultancy on client site, is adapting modern ideas and techniques onto existing legacy systems. The temptation can be to sweep away the old and replace with the new, but most times this is … Continue reading →

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Fixed Price or Agile ?

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Shine Technologies

Mark raised some very good points in his comment against my recent post on welcoming change in projects: “One main barrier to these approaches being adopted in the past was the engagement/contract models that our clients dictated. If the project … Continue reading →

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Change is good

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Shine Technologies

My last post on Agile software development ended on one of the Agile Manifesto key principles – “Welcome changing requirements, even late in development.” But surely that leads to chaos – how can we possibly build something if we’ve got … Continue reading →

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Agile software development – back to first principles

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Shine Technologies

The Agile Manifesto was released in 2001 with some theatre and not a little revolutionary symbolism. Whilst it was seen by many as being a radical departure from accepted software development “best practise” I remember being somewhat bemused at what … Continue reading →

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