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.
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Gareth is the former web architect within the University of St Andrews web team and 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 then spent most of his time doing DSDM agile project management and business analysis, was the warden at Agnes Blackadder Hall from 2016 to 2018 and then moved into full time agile and scrum master work.
Notes for sprint ‘Greg LeMond’ (14 to 25 March 2016)
The work in this sprint took place from Monday 14 to Friday 25 March 2016. Sprint L saw us adopting ole Greg LeMond for our sprint name. Gregory James LeMond (born 26 June 1961) is an American former professional road…
No more IE bug hacks
No more IE bug hacks Last week I was speaking to a joint class of management and computer science students about our experiences of working with web standards through the years. Someone asked me what difference…
Notes for sprint ‘Vladimir Karpets’ (29 February to 11 March)
The work in this sprint took place from Monday 29 February to Friday 11 March 2016. We had reached sprint K, so this two weeks’ sprint was named after Russian cyclist Vladimir Karpets. Born in Leningrad in September…
DSDM Agile project management cheat sheet
Just over a year ago I was sitting in a classroom learning about and sitting two exams on DSDM Atern Agile project management. Something that I wished had been available at the time was some kind of cheat sheet that…
Sprint notes for DC1001 (sprints 13 to 15)
Something we want to get better at is improve how we communicate our progress on current projects. This will be the first of many such posts. We’re currently working on one very large project, DC1001 External…
Velocity and why it’s important
Velocity is an important tool in Agile. Let me explain a little about what it is and why we find it useful. Speed = distance over time One of the challenges when planning each two weeks’ sprint is working out how much…
Reduce the file size of PDF documents
A few months ago, while quality checking our new prototype website I discovered a page that was linking to three PDF files. The problem was: they were enormous. The largest document was over 63 MB; that’s about…
Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on 12 January 2016
Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on 12 January 2016 Ah! Internet Explorer what a relationship we’ve had over the years, eh? Internet Exploder we often called you. The hours of frustration working…
Versioning—a brilliant, daily newsletter about the web
Versioning—a brilliant, daily newsletter about the web One resource that I’ve been enjoying over the last few months is Versioning from Sitepoint. which describes itself as a “a social news site for kind web folk”. At…