For as long as I can remember, we’ve had it instilled into us that we must satisfy and ideally delight the customer.  As agile practitioners, customer satisfaction and delight sit at the core of what we are trying to do. I was recently reminded of this by Three, the Mobile Phone company, who I have…
I have created a simple little survey to allow you to assess your project with SEMAT. You can print the answers (or download a little PDF) afterwards so you can rerun the survey at a later date to see if how the project has changed. This is a simple tool to see if SEMAT works…
SEMAT SEMAT short for Software Engineering Methods And Theory is an initiative to create a set of activities and states for each activity to use with (principally agile) software projects. Despite the rather grand title, SEMAT is, at its core, a frame work of activities and states that apply to all software projects. The objective…
These days SCRUM agile for most people. Teams quickly learn the ceremonies and can become quite adept at working with the practices and companies see some improvements against more traditional methods. When I meet people who have been working with agile for a while I am often surprised that their understanding is limited to the…