Archive - April 2012

I've had the pleasure of introducing Agile and its RAD/JAD predecessors into a number of projects over the last 20 years. Today, the questions I hear from clients in the early stages of adoption are much the same as they always have been, but they are framed differently. I think this reflects that Agile has entered the mainstream of business thinking, and the questions are now coloured by expectations set as a result of reading books, seeing presentations and meeting practitioners.

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Crossing the Chasm

25 APR 2012 | Posted in ADAPT, agile adoption, agility | Author John Wright | 1 Comment

Ok, so its probably an over-used senior management phrase, but I can't help but think adopting Agile is a bit like starting up and growing your own business.

When someone has a new idea for a business, they usually start small, figure out the rules of business, find out what they need to do to make their business work, identify their market, tailor their product, get the pricing right, identify how to sell their product, win some business, re-invest the learning and profits into the business to help it grow.

Doing non functional testing early in a project has obvious advantages. It’s also a challenge of course to be able to get meaningful outputs based on the current state of the project. This has created an interesting issue on several projects that I am currently working on.

OK, so let’s be more specific here. I was initially looking specifically at performance issues and not looking at stress/load, security and soak testing and any other NFT issues we could discuss.