Beginning to think about risk management in Agile projects
I've been thinking a lot about risk in Agile projects recently. It is something that I've known for a while we need to manage better. Here's some of what I've discovered so far.
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Gareth is the web architect within the University of St Andrews digital communications team. A graduate of St Andrews (BD Hons, 1993), Gareth joined the web team in 2006 and worked mainly on information architecture and front-end development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). He currently spends most of his time doing DSDM agile project management and business analysis.
When retrospective objectives stack up
During team retrospectives, which we hold at the end of each sprint, we have been guilty of agreeing to too many actions to change our processes and working practices. Needless to say, most of these don't get completed…
Using Trello for team retrospectives
Retrospectives are an important tool for Agile teams like ours. They allow the team to reflect frequently (usually at the end of an iteration) on work habits and processes, and agree how to improve them. We hold…
Lost in translation: Duncan Stephen on why emoji can be confusing
Lost in translation: Duncan Stephen on why emoji can be confusing Former web editor here, Duncan Stephen, recently wrote a fascinating article on his blog about the miscommunication that can happen when sending emoji…
Singing the praises of Opera’s new privacy features
Singing the praises of Opera’s new privacy features I have long been a fan of everyone’s favourite “other other other browser”, as The Register put it this week, Opera. Opera uses the same rendering engine as Google…
TweetDeck for Windows is dead—what it taught me about the importance of data and user experience
As I write this, last week Twitter pulled the plug on TweetDeck for Windows, forcing PC users into their browsers to use the web version instead. For at least the last six years I’ve been a vocal advocate…
Our main focus for the last three sprints
Sprint #18 (David Millar) took place between Monday 28 March to Friday 8 April 2016 (weeks 8 and 9), inclusive. Sprint #19 (Mikel Nieve) took place between Monday 11 and Friday 22 April 2016 (weeks 10 and 11),…
Exception reports, or what happens when a project goes off-track
One of the things that we’re taught when learning the DSDM agile project management framework is that, unlike traditional project management approaches where the project manager manages the team on a day-to-day basis,…
Scottish Web Folk
On Friday 18 March, Carley and I travelled to the University of Edinburgh for the quarterly gathering of the Scottish Web Folk. The Scottish Web Folk is a bit like a ceilidh. But there’s no music, and everyone there is…
How we name our sprints
Should you name your Agile sprints, and if so how? I argue that while sprints are transient, it can be fun and provide a useful way to help keep track of sprints between project boards.