Ungdommen nå til dags
Ivar og jeg har holdt workshop for IT-elevene på Sandvika videregående skole. TV8-innslag fra workshoppen her. Temaet var smidig utvikling. Jeg er alltid spent på utfallet av en workshop. Ved siden av...
View ArticleThe user feedback problem
If you’re into agile, you’ve probably encountered this question: If iterating over user feedback is so fundamentally important, how come Apple has repeated success with their apparent one-off,...
View ArticleThe splendid long iterations
Some times, we want longer iterations. We waste to much time in meetings and other activities associated with iteration turnovers, so we decide to extend the duration of the iteration. Let’s make those...
View ArticleFå betalt for feil du ikke finner!
På dagens frokostmøte ble det ytret frustrasjon rundt testere i ett prosjekt som så det som sin oppgave å finne flest mulige feil i applikasjonen. Og det er greit nok det, om man har rigget prosjektet...
View ArticleBooks Our Developers Should Read
There are a few books that every developer in Iterate should read because they express what we believe in and are extremely valuable in themselves. The books chosen are generally and broadly useful and...
View ArticleSvarteper i smidig utvikling
Du er inne i et prosjekt som har gått et par tre måneder. Det finnes ikke noe i produksjon, men backloggen er lang som et vondt år og består av noen hundre user stories som ble estimert en gang i...
View ArticleKnow your feedback loop – why and how to optimize it
If you always write perfect code, know how to predict the future and don’t care how your money is spent, you don’t need to read this. The rest of you need to know this stuff. What is a feedback loop? A...
View ArticleThe one idea-retrospective
I sometimes facilitate retrospectives for teams that don’t feel like they have the time to do retrospectives. I know the feeling from personal experience: We’re in a toxic world about to crash to its...
View ArticleDon’t substitute MVP for beta
Experience shows that early product releases can be a smart move when doing innovation. What used to be called betas or even alphas is nowadays often referred to as an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). In...
View ArticleAgile Nearshoring with Yogurt!
At a recent beerstorming (*), we discussed how to make nearshoring of software development work. Funny enough, the smooth taste of Yogurt entered the picture. (*) Beerstorm is a fun-name invention for...
View ArticleWhy not release earlier?
A post about how to overcome the terror of feedback, and why it is an important step towards continuous delivery I had a conversation yesterday with a team that was putting out version zero of a...
View ArticleIdle your product owner
As a first step towards dealing with an over-loaded development team, we showed an organization how to visualize their work by representing work items with Post-its on the wall, flowing from to-do, to...
View ArticleDone in 18 bananas
Even though the word consult comes from Latin and French and has nothing to do with it, giving estimates feels closer to conning than advising. Naturally we feel bad about this, we do not want to feel...
View ArticleLean Startup as an invisible hand
Torve Indahl on Please share your opinion on what prevents lean startups in enterprise Business cases are in most large corp the key follow-up tool to measure your projects success and growth. When...
View ArticleA very quick way to A/B-test
In discussions about A/B testing, everyone usually agrees that it is a good thing. To get started, however, somebody must first have the time and the resources to build the A/B test rig. It will take...
View ArticleFlow: The idiosyncrasy of awesome engineers
“Earth to Anders! It’s the daily stand-up!” It felt like being a boy again, hearing my mother calling me in for dinner when it finally was my turn to be Darth Vader. I didn’t want to attend that...
View ArticleLean Summer of 2015 – Week 5
Can 6 tech students help a telecom giant innovate in 6 weeks? Telenor Norway wants to solve real problems for real people. As summer interns in Iterate – the lean startup consultancy in Norway – we’ve...
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