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• Grapevines and Agile make great Wine...

  I couldn't resist the title. By this point in most of your careers you have been exposed to the grapevine exercise. This exercise is geared to show you how one thought through many control points gets distorted and misrepresented. I believe this is... Posted Jun 24 2008, 04:39 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management

• Matrix Resource Management and Agile

  I have been having an ongoing discussion lately concerning matrix management styles and how they conflict with Agile Project Management. If you look at the traditional "Iron Triangle", resources are estimated, in that change is expected in the... Posted Jun 23 2008, 04:03 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management

• My issues with the term "Scrum Master"

  A few years ago I was very excited at the possibility of becoming a Scrum master. At the time I had been an avid XP practitioner for a little over two years. I had read several books on the Scrum but viewed it as simply Yet Another Agile Methodology ... Posted Jun 07 2008, 05:54 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Project Coaching & Management, Scrum

• Hanging your code out to dry

  I was speaking with Marcus Bratton the other day about code reviews. We both agreed that they are very valuable but finding the time is probably the most difficult aspect of any code review. Paired Programming helps to eliminate the need for code reviews... Posted Mar 27 2008, 04:31 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management

• Passionate about People!

  Over the last couple of weeks I have had time to observe many aspects of myself and of the development community. One of the epiphanies I had was that I am passionate about people more than coding. I love to mentor other developers. I love to mentor future... Posted Jan 02 2008, 07:57 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management

• What I do

  In response to being tagged by Jason !: These are one of the few questions I hate to answer because I don't like talking about myself. In fact if I met you on the street and it was a casual gathering, I would just tell you I work on computers and... Posted Dec 20 2007, 07:44 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Project Coaching & Management

• Customer Perception Model: Know thy customer

  It's important to know how your "working" software is being received out in the field. Immediate customer feedback is one thing during a release but what about after the code actually gets out into the field. How are those users feeling... Posted Dec 17 2007, 12:35 AM by Joe Ocampo with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management, Tools

• User Story Templates

  A couple of people emailed me and asked me what the story cards looked like on our information radiator . It is important to note that these story cards are only drafted after extensive modeling and feedback sessions during our modeling week. We don't... Posted Dec 09 2007, 10:37 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management, Tools

• Information Radiators: Make life visible

  A couple of people have asked me how we track our work for our iterations. We basically use a somewhat simple information radiator . Information radiators serve to quickly give everyone on the project team a quick indication on what needs to be done,... Posted Dec 08 2007, 04:31 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management, Tools

• When passion becomes dogma is it elitism?

  From Wikipedia Passion is the emotion of feeling very strongly about a subject. Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, thought to be authoritative and not to be disputed or doubted. Elitism... Posted Nov 14 2007, 12:17 AM by Joe Ocampo with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management, Tools, altnetconf

• RE: BDD and Requirements Traceability - Oh No, Not Again

  This is a response to Scott Bellware’s recent post on “ BDD and Requirements Traceability - Oh No, Not Again” It is true that we are inevitably doomed to repeat our past mistakes if subsequent generations are unaware of the travails of its previous generation... Posted Oct 15 2007, 12:02 AM by Joe Ocampo with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: BDD (Behavior Driven Development), Agile Project Management, Agile Project Coaching & Management, Behavior Driven Design (BDD), Tools

• There is always time for TDD

  I just finished reading Dean Wamplers post on Why you have time for TDD (but may not know it yet...) . He brings up excellent's points that Agilist struggle with when trying to convey to a client on why they need TDD and how they can justify spending... Posted Sep 30 2007, 04:07 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with no comments Filed under: BDD (Behavior Driven Development), Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management, Behavior Driven Design (BDD)

• Agile vs. Traditional Development Cost Models ...Maybe

  One of the developers in the lab had been talking to his friends, who is being introduced to Scrum. One of the value proposition that they are selling to his friends company is that Agile will save you money in project cost. I want to caution Agile Practitioners... Posted Sep 20 2007, 05:24 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management

• Do you need a sofa mover or a chair mover?

  I was talking to a peer of mine Tim Quinn, who I have spent the last year mentoring. I have to say he surprised me, when one of our analyst argued about Paired Programming, Tim came up with this phrase: "If you have to move a couch you get two people... Posted Sep 14 2007, 02:48 PM by Joe Ocampo with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management

• Agile Bibliography Wiki

  <info> George Dinwiddie announces the Agile Bibliography Wiki to track readings on the subject of agile, particularly those that are useful to back up a point, or which are useful references, and invites the community to help fill out the reading... Posted Sep 14 2007, 08:21 AM by Joe Ocampo with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Agile Project Management, Agile Teams, Agile Project Coaching & Management