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Book review: “Implementing Lean Software Development”
Books like “Implementing Lean Software Development”, written by Mary and Tom Poppendieck, act as a good reminder of the principles behind Agile and Lean development practices. The book explains in great detail (and supported by relevant real-life examples) the main things that underpin an ‘iterative development approach’. In some of my previous blog posts I concentrated…
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How does language service LinguaSys work?
If you’re into basketball, no doubt you’ve heard about Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks (who won the NBA Finals two years ago, credit to an outstanding Dirk Nowitzki, but that’s a different story). Cuban is the main reason I learned about LinguaSys. LinguaSys specialises in products and services that help international businesses understand…
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Book review: “Requirements by collaboration”
I guess I’m not alone when I say that a large number of the workshops that I’ve facilitated in the past have been based on gut feel and some sort of practical, logical approach to getting the desired outcomes. It was therefore good to read “Requirements by collaboration”. Agile practitioner Ellen Gottesdiener published this book in…
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Understanding more about Amazon Cloud Player and storing music in the cloud
Last week saw the UK launch of Amazon’s Cloud Player, a service enabling Amazon users to play their music stored in the cloud (through Amazon’s Cloud Drive) from any computer or Android device connected to the Internet. The service was launched in the US back in July, and now Amazon’s UK customers will be able…
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Learning about creating a good product vision
Over the past few weeks I have been learning a lot about ‘product vision’, creating a mission statement for a product or an overarching vision for a product portfolio. It made me wonder. Is a product vision always a future, pie-in-the-sky idea of where one expects a product to be? Are you allowed to make…
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