My Key Takeaways From Agile Vietnam Conference 2019 On December 8th, I had the honour of attending and speaking at Agile Vietnam Conference 2019 in Hanoi. This was the second time I had spoken at this community-led conference and in both instances I’ve had a great experience and learned a lot. Morning talks I had …
I only recently ran into a now three-year-old Reddit thread that explains Agile to a hypothetical five-year-old. And the most upvoted answer explains Agile like this: Only work on the most important things at any given point in time Break those things into small bite-sized tasks for individuals to work on autonomously Agile delivers value …
There are three truths we all know about estimates in software development: It is hard, we are really bad at it, and estimated projects always seem to end up running over time and over budget. Now, there are two camps of agile practitioners who approach solving these problems in different ways: The Better Estimates camp—I’ll …
On August 23rd, 2017, I gave my first agile talk at Mindvalley’s beautiful Hall of Awesomeness, organized by an incredible organization called Women Who Code, Kuala Lumpur (WWC). The event also included a talk by my fellow agilist colleague, Andreea Visanoiu, who presented a comparison about agile frameworks. My talk was about agile teams and it was well …
A tale of two mindsets How does a waterfall team approach a problem? Meet Tim. Tim is a manager of the tech department of a waterfall software development shop. Tim and other managers in the department were worried because the DAU (daily active users) of their online application was in decline. So they gave themselves …