SDD
You can’t count on the customer to know what they want, so there needs to be a regulation mechanism that Matt Cottingham calls “Sales Driven Development” … Sales Driven Development With Agile, came wholesale criticsm of traditonal “milestones” – but what should be in it’s place? After all, a client expects to know some kind [...]
The Agile Client
The Agile client …. by Billy Connolly I want this and that, I want it now, and I will want more tomorrow, and then I will change my f*cking mind, and you can do it all again!
WordPress – deactivate plugins from db
Sometimes it may be necessary to deactivate plugins, but you can’t access the administrative menus to do so. usually down to a flaky plugin that not only fails to work, but leaves garbage that causes wordpress to throw a hissy fit. In the table wp_options, under the option_name column (field) find the active_plugins row TO [...]
Funky tester
People getting into testing now, are having an easier job – not least because there is a lot more discussion and information around the benefits of testing. And a general acceptance that testing has lagged behind modern development approaches, to extent it was covered in other ways. Newbies to testing are treating testing like a [...]
Can’t see wood for the trees
Business needs to move away from Procrustean solutions approach, which inevitably affect the way projects are managed. A Procrustean solution is the undesirable practice of tailoring data to fit its container or some other preconceived structure. A common example from the business world is embodied in the notion that no résumé should exceed one page [...]
37+ and still learning …
After working for 37 companies, I consistently blamed business as main point of weakness on IT projects. But after reading this article, I felt I had slipped into the same generalisations that just plain aren’t helpful. I do believe it is far easier to point out problems rather than solutions (stand up, way too many [...]
The Agile Manager
There was no specifics around management in Agile originally, only for development approach – though addendum’s have been (hurriedly) added over the years. Management issues always existed pre-Agile of course, but over the last 10 years the role of “manager” has become a lot looser than of old. You can have a manager title, and [...]
