Posts Tagged ‘agile’

Mention of the word, “methodology” need not elicit groans.  Without a repeatable approach to projects it’s easy to miss key requirements, expectations, errors, etc.   So use a software developer methodology for your project. Which methodology to use? Frankly, I don’t care which methodology you use as long as it’s not a waterfall methodology.   I’ve been […]

According to the Project Management Institute, in 2007 61% of all “IT” projects failed or were halted before completion. In 2008, more than 75% of all projects exceeded budgets by 30%. All too frequently, IT projects fail to meet customer or user expectations. There are many risks inherent with creation in an enterprise IT environment: […]

In the film “Up in the Air,” Ryan Bingham makes his living traveling to clients and laying off their employees with his own special charm (he is played by George Clooney, after all). His upstart colleague, Natalie, proposes a new method via videoconferencing. But before the new system can go into place, their boss convinces […]

Continuing with the third installment of the things you shouldn’t be doing on a project is one of my favorite.  It refers to a development methodology.  All too often those of us in IT forget about the end business goal and instead focus on the tool that’s supposed to get us to the goal.  When […]

Continuing with the third installment of the things you shouldn’t be doing on a project is one of my favorite.  It refers to a development methodology.  All too often those of us in IT forget about the end business goal and instead focus on the tool that’s supposed to get us to the goal.  When […]

Responding to substantially expanding breadth of services and doubled headcount, Perficient is pleased to announce that we have opened a new and expanded facility in China. In a release issued today, Perficient’s chief executive and president, Jeffrey Davis, commented on the growth: “As Perficient scales in the years ahead, we expect growth at the GDC […]

I’ve been exposed to Agile/Scrum for a while and recently I tried to summarize some testing principles which are all concerned with quality. Test Driven Test cases and unit test will be developed prior to coding any lines Unit test will be required to ensure the quality of the refactoring Test Early Deliverables in each […]

I am travelling in our Detroit office today. I am working with our U.S. team to leverage Scrum for automation and load testing on a current project for a client. Typically, this process includes system testing with waterfall, which cannot include Agile methodology. However, it does work for our current project. And I will share with […]

User Story: As a development team, we need to have enough office space and capacity to grow to over 2x our current size. Ok, I’m kidding a little. Not in the above statement – which was our true ‘epic’ requirement over a year ago and one that we realized this past weekend in our move […]

There’s a great article in the online version of the Wall Street Journal titled “For RIM, Less Research Could Mean More Motion“. There are a couple of choice quotes from the article that parallel what I always try to share with others when I am talking about the business benefits of agile.

Just a few weeks ago we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the drafting of the Agile Manifesto. To celebrate the 10 year anniversary many of the original signatories along with some other agile proponents got together to review what has happened during the past 10 years and to consider the future. There are numerous blog […]

The Scrum Alliance invited me to write a brief article about my work in China. The article is now posted on the front page of the Scrum Alliance website. Drive by and take a look when you have some time.