Monthly Archives: October 2009
Tweaking the Agile Calendar
For the first five iterations, the dev team had been following this schedule:
- Iteration N, Week 1 = Design for iteration N and 2nd week of QA for iteration N-1
- Iteration N, Week 2 = Development
- Iteration N, Week 3 = Development
- Iteration N, Week 4 = 1st week of QA for iteration N
- Iteration N, Week 5 / Iteration N +1, Week 1 = 2nd week of QA for iteration N, design for iteration N + 1
Agile impressions, 5 iterations in…
I'm assuming from the amount of hype out there that if a development team isn't using "Agile" right now, they probably feel like the one kid on the block who didn't have a Nintendo (with the Duck Hunt option, of course).
Well, we here at OPOWER loved our Duck Hunt, so we've been attempting to use "Agile" for the last 5 months or so. Agile means a lot of things to a lot of people, so I'll spell out what it means for us and then reflect on some of the pros, cons, and room-for-improvement in our practice.
Well, we here at OPOWER loved our Duck Hunt, so we've been attempting to use "Agile" for the last 5 months or so. Agile means a lot of things to a lot of people, so I'll spell out what it means for us and then reflect on some of the pros, cons, and room-for-improvement in our practice.
Moving Day