In about 3 weeks I’ll be flying to Kiev and meeting some of the best Agilists in the planet. But it won’t be just fun and games for me. I’m already stressing about my sessions. Check out the video introduction of my sessions at Agile Eastern Europe and, while you are at it why not …
Great post by Martin Fowler about a hidden aspect of the User Story flow within a team. Many times I see teams that expect the Product Owner to behave just like a Requirements manager did in the past. Come up with the content, put it in the tool and stay out of the way! That’s …
An interesting story over at 37signals’ blog about a company/site that was started against someone’s better judgment because the people involved saw a working version of the site not a requirements document!My favourite quote: 1. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Execution is hard. 2. Meetings suck. 3. Requirements documents suck. Read it. You owe it …
Some time ago I wrote a post supporting the idea of a new template for the User Story. In that post I tried to explain why we should bring the “value” (because) clause to the fore, to make it the most important clause of the User Story template. Then John Arrowwood commented on that post …
Part of being a cool company is that you respect your customers. This is not a show of respect by Apple. Seriously, this is just used car salesman tactics. Apple, shape up!
This may be the reason why so many people love Apple. This thing is that those that build Apple products love the products they build! If it happens to be a failure? So what? Let’s build another one that will not be a failure. Steve Jobs clearly has an influence on this culture because he …
Apple had a considerable amount of credibility when they started they iPod “offensive” some years ago. So much credibility that people were willing to overlook critical customer-back stabbing such as the iTunes being DRM ridden, the iTV (ooops, apple TV) being more expensive in Europe even if there’s no content for it at all in …
Being in Finland I’d love for Nokia to continue to be a big player in the mobile phone and mobile Internet access market. I lover their N810 device (just don’t get why they did not put a GSM chip in it…), and have been a loyal customer of their mobile phones. But that is about …
