Furthering the quest to *get* agile
April 15th, 2009 • Productivity, Uncategorized, agile, programming
My academic learning focus has been a bit off recently, what with the amount of work i’ve had on. But, no excuses – my quest to grasp the academic history of agile delivery is taking steps forward, with my digging into DSDM. I’ve decided to focus on DSDM due to its UK-centricity, which I feel will have the greatest short term impact. I’ll get to SCRUM, XP, RUP, et al when i get to them.
I started the quest ages ago and have progressed it, but more in practice than in reading. Now’s the time for the reading to pick up again…
I just thought i’d add an update comment here. Since this post, i’ve become a certified SCRUM master and acted as SCRUM Master on a large project (to get it back on track). I like SCRUM. My approach has been to follow the SCRUM way to the letter and only customise when we felt we understood the default and knew why we were changing. Worked very well for that project. Getting product owners to define sufficient detail seems to be the biggest problem!