One of the highlights of Saturday’s NakedAgilists conference was a discussion of wevouchfor.org. This is a website being developed principally by Laurent Bossavit and Brian Marick, on which members of the (agile) software community can certify each others’ work. It’s a response to last year’s debates about “certification” programmes, and represents an attempt to move… [Read more…]
January 11, 2008
One reason I started this blog is that my left and right brains don’t seem to be connected to each other: I tend not to know what I think until I hear myself stating an opinion, and then I’m often horrified by what I hear. So blogging is a bit like talking to myself. Steven… [Read more…]
September 5, 2007
While catching up on my reading of lean blogs today I stumbled on a post by Jon Miller at Gemba Panta Rei, called Give Me 60 Minutes and I’ll Give You a Lean Transformation, in which Jon describes a very simple — and quite theatrical — means of driving improvement: “This exercise starts with picking… [Read more…]
August 14, 2007
This week I’ve come across a few articles that clicked together as I read them, and in so doing they reinforced one of my deepest beliefs about software development – or any other profession, for that matter. The articles were: Train Wreck Management by Mary Poppendieck, in which Mary chronicles the origins of “management” and… [Read more…]
May 3, 2007
This week's carnival is a single-topic issue, bringing together a smattering of your thoughts on the agile/lean maxim of "individuals and interactions" over processes and tools
May 31, 2006
Imposing an agile transition on an organisation can lead to entrenched positions; is that good or bad?
May 15, 2006
In the past I've been treated inhumanely by corporates, and "side-lined" for my reaction; here's an open letter offering advice to executives on how to keep good staff
January 12, 2006
The weekly planning meeting ends with a commitment by the development team to deliver an agreed increment of value. That commitment should be respected by the whole organisation
July 14, 2005
Yesterday I used the phrase "In that case, we'll need to manage their expectations." I've used it a million times before. Today I feel it smells bad
December 16, 2004
I received an email a couple of weeks ago, addressed to 'Dear Resource'
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.
January 21, 2008
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