Projects' Little Helper

Agile Tour Sydney 2011

Ed — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:30:13 +0000

What does Sydney have that Melbourne doesn’t? Well apart from the Bridge and the Opera House, this year Sydney hosted the first Australian instance of the Agile Tour, a series of non-profit, independently organised events held worldwide between October and December. Agile Tour originated in France in 2008 and has [...]

The importance of having “air support”

Ed — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:24:49 +0000

I came across this interesting Xtranormal video created by the folks at UPMentors via David Joyce’s recent blog post “Agile, Lean, and Kanban, Do They Change Management Thinking?”

You can see what UPMentors have to say about it on their blog post that accompanies the video.

I can definitely see echoes of the different scenes [...]

Miyagi, the Karate Kid and Scrum

Ed — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:52:52 +0000

As I mentioned in my last entry, I whipped up a small talk to do at last night’s Melbourne Scrum User Group meetup, which had the rough title ““Being Mr Miyagi and the Karate Kid“.

I scoured the web to find some stills from the 1984 movie and printed them onto A5 paper to show to the [...]

Being Mr Miyagi and the Karate Kid

Ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:42:35 +0000

Update – I’ve done a follow up post.

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I’m doing a talk at the Melbourne Scrum User Group‘s “Lightning Talk meetup” next week.

The deal is this: People take 5 minutes to pitch an idea at the audience. We follow up with 10-15 minutes discussion and then move onto the next speaker. We keep [...]

Change and improvement

Ed — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:21:57 +0000

I probably don't have to tell you that the lean concept in software development is adapted from the automobile manufacturing industry. In this podcast episode, a really interesting case study is shown where continuous improvement by reducing "waste" was achieved at a cancer centre in Seattle by adapting the Toyota Production System to healthcare. [...]