Category: Software
Automating Jira sprints
This post describes the advantages of automating Jira sprint creation for Agile leaders, emphasizing enhanced efficiency, consistency, and improved long-term planning. It features a script authored by Andrew and hosted on GitHub, enabling the creation of single or multiple sprints across multiple Jira projects. The script ensures standardized sprint naming, start/end dates, and times, and facilitates the retrieval of SprintIDs for seamless integration with JQL and Confluence.
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Definition of Ready (DoR)
The prerequisites for an agile issue to enter an iteration or sprint, ensuring readiness for work commencement. Detailing ten key characteristics with recommendations, noting possible variations for epics, tasks, and sub-tasks.
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Four days…
How agile and agile leadership concepts can be applied to elite motor sport. #agile #agileleadership #leadership #systemsthinking
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Re-employing agile – embracing agility outside traditional software development
On Friday, 8 October 2021 I gave an online talk for the Access Agile Freestival on my experiences with “re-employing” agile – how agile can be embraced by non-software development teams. This page contains a video recording of the talk plus other resources including an audio-only version of the talk together with the slides I presented and a transcript of my speaker notes.
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Inconsistent change
Change. Why consistency is everything and how new players like Facebook still have to deal with the legacy of change and inconsistent code causing an inconsistent user experience.
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Cookie Party
Cookie Monster is one of my favourite Sesame Street characters, especially the unrivalled hunger for his namesake. I was reminded of this by a two day old Washington Post article titled “Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software“. This article goes into some depth about how we are individually being tracked online, the impact of this and how often there is scant knowledge of why this is happening and what the outcome is for us and the purveyors of Internet sites and services…[read on for solutions to this]
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Where did it all go?
Yep, we’ve all been there managing an ever decreasing amount of storage on our favorite weapon of choice. A short post to plug Windows and Android tools to assist.
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Agile – building a high performing team
Building a high performing team starts with careful observation, dedication and commitment.
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Agile – how to document a "proper" handover
How you leave tells you something about a person, about their passion and about what’s important to them. It can be a simple act like pushing your chair in after a meeting, pushing all the chairs in, cleaning the whiteboards even if you didn’t use them, leaving something in a better state than you found it. Below is the text of my handover notes published on Confluence ten days before our team was disbanded…
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Why Agile and why change?
Why Agile is so appealing, why we need to change and why change is so threatening.
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Saying goodbye: the hardest
Saying “goodbye” to an awesome team is so very, very hard. What have we learned? I’ll warrant more about ourselves through each other than we’d have learned alone. Two quotes have been swimming in my mind tonight, one from the Bard and one from a seminal film.
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Self-Organizing Agile Teams Don’t Just Happen by Chance – Mountain Goat Software
Self-Organizing Agile Teams Don’t Just Happen by Chance – Mountain Goat Software ...
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Agile software development
This post is the text of an article I wrote and internally published on Friday, 27th April 2018 while working at NBN Australia to provide an Iteration Manager aka Scrum Master retrospective the day before our next Program Increment planning session. It’s from a point in time where the Iteration Manager (me!) was looking at what’s changed and what challenges are still to come for the development team.
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