Way back in March of this year, while I was attending the Scottish Ruby Conference, Werner Schuster interviewed me for InfoQ. The video has been online since August, and this is me finally getting around to telling you about it; watch it here. I talk about Reek, Refactoring in Ruby, and agile development in general.… [Read more…]
October 31, 2010
Tomorrow evening (Nov 1st, 2010) I’ll be speaking at GeekUp Nottingham, reprising my flow session from this year’s AgileNorth conference. And at some point in the evening I’ll be giving away a signed copy of my book Refactoring in Ruby. If I show slides tomorrow, it’ll be the set I showed at AgileNorth, plus a… [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
Here’s a quick thought that you might like to use in your next retrospective: Do you know that the software you just released has realised the expected value? What if the answer is that you don’t know? How could you find out? And what might be the positive or negative side-effects of going to find… [Read more…]
May 18, 2009
Earlier this year Allan Kelly and I ran a workshop on agile/lean at Kingston University for the local BCS SPA group. Immo Hüneke, who invited us down there, has published an insightful write-up of the session, complete with photos (I’m the fat one in mid song).
January 18, 2009
My very talented friend Clarke Ching has self-published his second novel Rocks into Gold (his first, Rolling Rocks Downhill, is due out later this year). Rocks into Gold is a “parable for software developers who want to survive — and then thrive — through the Credit Crunch”. If you’re a subscriber to this blog you’ll… [Read more…]
October 10, 2008
If you’re in the UK this November you’ll be very welcome at this year’s AgileNorth 1-day conference. There’s always a very interesting mix of agile experts and newbies, and it’s a great opportunity to network for those of us based in the Greater Manchester area. It’s November 13th at UCLan, the University of Central Lancashire… [Read more…]
September 5, 2008
This week I’ve been reflecting on why it is that some “agile” teams seem to really fly, while others never seem to get out of second gear. Part of the answer, at least in the teams I’ve looked at, lies in the abilities of their testers. I wrote about the phenomenon over three years ago:… [Read more…]
February 4, 2008
This week Wayne Allen is starting an experiment: one of his teams is going to drop the “traditional” agile approach of iterations and velocity, in favour of a kanban-style pull system with capped work in progress. The team will do no estimation, and the only metric for the department will be the average number of… [Read more…]
January 30, 2008
Last week Clarke Ching put his arse on the line by vouching for me and my work. Clarke does a great deal of fantastic work for the agile community, and I’m very flattered to receive such an amazing endorsement from him. Thanks Clarke!
January 22, 2008
Clarke Ching has now published the podcast of last Saturday’s Naked Agilists conference. You can download it by following the links from www.nakedagilists.com, or get it directly from Clarke’s blog. It’s a great 90 minutes of presentations and discussions, and the Naked Agilists website has links to the slides so you can follow the presentations… [Read more…]
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
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