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Series: How to Kill the Architecture Department? Part 2
Part 2: Where is the employee formerly known as Architect? The agile organization model In the first blog post in this series Adriaan described a reference model for agile organizations. In other...
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Series: How to kill the Architecture Department? Part 3
Part 3: The Technical Product Owner Retrospective In the previous 2 posts we described the agile organization model and a couple of technical roles in this model. In this post we will dive into the...
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Technical debt; is it only technical?
The metaphor technical debt was introduced at the OOPSLA conference in 1992 by Ward Cunningham. The phrase was: “Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so...
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How to Kill the Architecture Department Part 4
Part 4: The Chief Technical Product Owner In part 3 of this series, Herbert introduced the role of Technical Product owner as a counter part of the (Functional) Product Owner. Before Product Owners and...
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Series: How to kill the Architecture Department? Part 5
Part 5: The Senior Software Engineer In Scrum it is best practice to have in each sprint all the team members needed to implement the user stories in that particular sprint. Most members will be either...
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Series: How to kill the Architecture Department? Part 7
Part 7: Best practices In the previous blog posts in this series we discussed the role of technical leads (and in particular of Technical Product Owners [TPO]) in an agile software development process....
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True & Reliable Continuous Delivery
True & Reliable Continuous Delivery True and reliable high quality Continuous Delivery is not just about fixing isolated issues with regard to teaming, deploying or testing. It’s about implementing...
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How combined Lean- and Agile practices will change the world as we know it
You might have attended this month at our presentation about eXtreme Manufacturing and the keynote of Nalden last week on XebiCon 2014. There are a few epic takeaways and additions I would like to...
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UC Berkeley paper unveils what business leaders should learn from the Agile...
Last fall, I was approached by Tom van Norden from the UC Berkeley School of Information. A team of professor Morten T. Hansen, famous from his bestseller with Jim Collins “Great by Choice”, was...
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Minimal Viable UX
An approach to incorporate UX into the LEAN principle. User Experience is often interpreted as a process where the ‘UX guru’ holds the ultimate truth in designing for an experience. The guru likes to...
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Architects & Scrum: 1. The forgotten questions of scrum.
This blog is intended to be the first of a series of blogs in which I will examine the role of architects in Scrum. I will start with what I think that are the forgotten questions of Scrum and in next...
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This blog is the second of a series of blogs in which I will examine the role of architects in Scrum. Last week I started with the forgotten questions of Scrum. In this blog I will look in more detail...
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Architects & Scrum: 3. Architects add vision
In my last post I stated that there is a lot of emphasis on the fact that architects have to help to get the scrum team to work better, faster en with more quality. By following the agile values the...
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Architects & Scrum: 4. What is the role of the architect in Scrum?
In my last blog I presented an illustration which shows the two primary aspects of the architects’ role. On one side they play a role in strengthening the heartbeat. On the other side, they play a role...
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Architecture in an Agile world
This Blog is a kick off to for many writings about architecture in an Agile World. We will explore the topic from all the views possible, in order to gain a better understanding about it. By doing so,...
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Series: How to Kill the Architecture Department? Part 1
Part 1: The Employee Formerly Known As Architect Every system has an architecture, but it is not necessarily designed by an architect. This post sketches a reference model for agile organizations...
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