Tag: Agile
Collaboration for Distributed Teams
February 29, 2012
Distributed teams are a perennially thorny issue. KRS shares our experience in the trenches delivering large Agile projects with distributed teams and individuals, using light-weight online and Cloud tools to facilitate communication and collaboration.
Leading the Lions
February 29, 2012
Leaders focus on doing the right things, where managers focus on doing things right. Leadership is influencing people to want to do what needs to be done.
The Prince isn’t Agile
November 4, 2011
Why the "best" of Project Management, Prince II, cannot ever, ever be Agile. Sorry, Prince II folks.
Testing – Critical Success Factor in Agile
August 17, 2011
You can't be Agile if you keep breaking code. It's that simple.
Writing Good User Stories
June 15, 2011
How many projects fail because between the specifications and the final result, it isn’t what the user wanted? The answer is too many… KRS has 3 industry techniques to share, from our experience.
Project Rescue
May 11, 2011
Billions of dollars are spent on software, yet many projects fail. KRS is often called in to a assist a "challenged" IT project, and we share our top tips for Project Rescue.
Agile – is it for you?
February 17, 2011
KRS have always felt an affinity for the Agile principles, but it is only in the last 12 months that we have truly embraced Agile.
Are you getting value for your software development budget?
November 9, 2010
Government computer projects seem doomed to fail: the press and public heap scorn on the very visible problems of eNATIS and CIPRO. But are corporates any better at managing the development process, or are they just more skilled at burying their failures?
Agile Projects
October 8, 2010
The Scrum Alliance held the Agile Conference in Cape Town on the 1st and 2nd of September, which gave KRS a chance to meet up with other Agile thinkers and practitioners in South Africa.
“Best of breed” thinking is for sheep, not software
October 10, 2008
Major international software vendors have done very well for themselves peddling not just their products, but also the idea that sticking with the big brands is the safest strategy: "Nobody ever got fired for going with the Gartner Magic Quadrant". But...