by Catherine Searle | Mar 19, 2018 | Agile, crowd testing, Customer Experience, governance, portfolio, Project Management, Testing, transformation
As organisations look to transform their business; through initiatives such as cloud adoption, customer centric delivery and commitment to aligning the IT and business worlds to a common goal, it is is no longer enough to treat these as a programme of work. Instead...
by Catherine Searle | Mar 5, 2018 | Agile, Digital, governance, Project Management, transformation
Traditionally, the business have called the shots and IT have been servants to the cause. Though there were many successful projects delivered in this way the change in the corporate machine, coupled with the rise of technology and efficient ways of working has led to...
by Catherine Searle | Feb 1, 2018 | Agile
[First Published, July 7, 2010, https://dsearle.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/continuous-process-improvement-how-often-how-much/ ] Reading and practising agile within a team, the aim is to promote collaboration and commitment to delivery on a sprint basis. Process...
by Catherine Searle | Dec 13, 2017 | Agile, governance, Project Management, Testing
Having worked over many years on various sized projects, similarities can be drawn irrespective of who runs the project, what the business priority is and how much budget is available. Wherever you go you are likely to face the same issues or anti-patterns when it...
by Catherine Searle | May 23, 2017 | Agile, Project Management
Sprint Planning in a SCRUM team is an essential piece of the jigsaw. Allowing teams to collectively understand, detail and size stories provides (or at least aims to add) predictability to sprint delivery. Detailing the tasks, integrations, need for stubs and level of...
by Catherine Searle | Apr 20, 2017 | Agile, Agile Testing, Project Management
Wherever you go, whatever blog post you read, whatever company you do business with; there is likely to be a general journey theme when it comes to implementing agile; especially the transition from positivity through to surrender. “We are doing agile”; “my velocity...