by David Norton | December 4, 2011 | 1 Comment
The timer flashes red 5:32, 5:31, 5:30 counting down to its final terrible conclusion. James Bond calmly leans over the device, “So is it the red or green wire, let’s go with lucky red”, snip. The counter jumps from 5:24 to 0:30. ”Ahh not so lucky red, lets try the green”, snip. The counter stops, [...]
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by David Norton | January 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
If you talk about agile to a developer you often hear the reply “oh you mean Scrum” – the two have become synonymous. By any measure Scrum is the most well known of the agile methods (is Scrum a method is for another blog), search results, blogs, books or surveys – its top of the [...]
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by David Norton | January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Well 3 weeks into 2010 and it already clear we going have a busy year regards agile. If last year saw the tipping point for agile this year will see the blood on the boardroom carpet. When clients told me of their plans to use Scrum on a $5 million project with 400 developers in [...]
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by David Norton | September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
Monday night saw me settle down in front of the TV to watch “What Darwin Didn’t Know” on BBC. A documentary described as “the story of evolution theory since Darwin postulated it in 1859 in ‘On the Origin of Species’.” Towards the end of the program, and just before I nodded off (having two boy’s [...]
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by David Norton | September 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week found me at the Defence Systems & Equipment International Exhibition (DSEi) in London. DSEi bills itself as the world’s largest defence trade show with over 1000 exhibiters and 25,000 delegates over 4 days. Attending the show is an event by itself, you need to be security checked weeks before hand and it took [...]
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by David Norton | August 26, 2009 | 4 Comments
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” When Winston Churchill spoke those words in 1942 he was talking about a turning point in WW2, I am talking about a turning point in agile development. In my last blog [...]
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by David Norton | August 24, 2009 | Comments Off
This week I am in Chicago attending the Agile 2009 conference. Now in its 8th year this is the major event in the agile calendar. The event kicked off today boasting over 1400 delegates, a measure of the interest in agile in these austere days of travel bans and belt tightening. With over 300 session [...]
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by David Norton | March 16, 2009 | Comments Off
As this is my first blog let me start by giving a quick introduction. I am based in the UK just outside London. I am a Londoner but I don’t speak like Michael Caine, oddly I get mistaken for Australian when I am in the US. I have two small boys. The 3 year old [...]
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