LLMs and Agility: Why Pit Them Against Each Other?
Just because we develop faster, does that mean we no longer need Agility? This idea betrays a misunderstanding of what Agility is.
Posts tagged “Agile and Lean”
If you think Agility is expensive, understand that it’s a risk premium
The problem is that the benchmark (Waterfall) leads to software that doesn’t meet users’ needs…
Take back control of your development, without the illusion of estimates
Don’t ask, “How long will this take?” Instead, ask yourself if you can break your work down into even smaller pieces.
There are different kinds of MVPs: it all depends on the context
Some MVPs cost 10,000 euros; others, 10 million euros. The goal is the same—to acquire real users—but it all depends on the market.
Changing the Company: Between Sincere Intentions and On-the-Ground Reality
To bring about lasting change, it’s better to persuade than to order. However, this change takes time and requires self-directed individuals.
Once a ticket, always bullshit
User Story or technical task? Behind a battle of words lies the trade-off between today’s value and tomorrow’s.
The Obsession with Customer Service
When “users” are mistreated by a company in a monopoly position, there is cause to start a competing business.
12 Creative Ways to Screw Up Your Sprints
"It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from the mistakes of others." Warren Buffett is talking about investing; I’m talking about sprints.
Waterfall: A Recipe for Failure
Sequential methodologies do not work for business IT, primarily because of the tunnel effect. The alternative? Agility.
The Retrospective: The DNA of Agility
If you had to keep just one thing from Agility, keep the retrospective. As a forum for continuous improvement, it paves the way for problem-solving.
Architecture Decision Record
ADR helps streamline a team’s architectural decisions and prevents them from being constantly called into question.
On its own, Agility makes no sense
Agility is the art of “how,” Product Management that of “what.” One without the other is pointless: they are two sides of the same coin.
Lean Culture
“Lean is not a production system; it’s a learning system”: that line gave me the foothold I needed to grok Lean.
Walking Skeleton
The Walking Skeleton aims to lay a solid foundation for reaching the MVP while minimizing technical debt. It’s a step worth formalizing.
Example Mapping, the Most Underestimated Agile Practice
It would be a mistake to believe that functional design is the sole responsibility of the PM: we think more clearly when working together and using concrete examples.
Trunk-Based Development, a radical solution to “merge hell”
Trunk-Based Development, which stems directly from Extreme Programming, is an excellent alternative to GitFlow, but be sure to thoroughly review the prerequisites.
POC vs. MVP: We Won’t Agree
A POC validates a marketing or technical idea, while an MVP aims to acquire your first users.
Project vs. Product: Words Matter
A project exists because we envision a goal to be achieved. A product has no end and evolves based on user feedback.
Scrum: A Framework for Agility Experts?
My main criticism of Scrum is that it says nothing about functional design. If you want it to work, it’s up to you to fill in the gaps.
No one knows what a User Story is anymore
"As a user, I want to connect to the database, so that I’m connected to the database." Great, or not: we have to be able to do better than that.
To estimate or not to estimate—that is the question
Rather than making estimates—which are as accurate as a broken clock (which is right twice a day)—break your work down into smaller tasks.
Danger zone
As agility has become more widespread, it has been misused, becoming synonymous with micromanagement and absurd practices. Yet we need agility now more than ever.