This overview of our Agile development process contains information that you need to know before we start your software project. It explains your role and responsibilities (and ours), describes what happens in Sprint 0 and the development Sprints, and identifies the deliverables that you can expect to receive. After reading it, you should have a [...]
Whitepaper: Our Software Delivery Methodology : What to Expect in the Development Process
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June 27, 2011
User Story Tip: One story or two?
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February 24, 2011
On a regular basis, product owners ask me if a given user story should be split in two. There’s no canned answer for this question, in fact, story writing is as much art as it is a science. That said, I generally respond by asking the business owner to think carefully about the story’s business [...]
Save Your Silver Bullets for the Werewolves
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February 21, 2011
If you read our white paper “Agile Is No Silver Bullet: Building Great Software Takes Much More”, you know that unscrupulous developers often characterize Agile development as a silver bullet solution for software projects. Sure, Agile is a really good development philosophy—as far as we know, it’s the best one—but it’s no silver bullet. In [...]
2010 Architech “Book” Report, Part 3: White Papers about Custom Software and Marketing Automation
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December 15, 2010
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this “book” report, we summarized all the white papers we’ve written about Agile/Lean software development and proper software engineering. In this third and final installment, our Really Serious Person takes a look at Architech white papers related to custom software and marketing automation. So, without further ado… Crush [...]
2010 Architech “Book” Report, Part 2: White Papers about Proper Software Engineering
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December 13, 2010
In Part 1 of this “book” report, we gave you a rundown of all our white papers related to Agile and Lean software development. Hopefully, you found at least one of them intriguing enough to download and read—perhaps the one about Agile’s CapEx/OpEx advantage? In this installment, our Really Serious Person sums up the white [...]
2010 Architech “Book” Report, Part 1: Our Agile/Lean White Papers
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December 9, 2010
You might have noticed that we use light-hearted blogs to introduce our white papers, which is fun but, admittedly, some people just want the facts. To make amends, we locked our funny man in a closet and asked a Really Serious Person to report on the white papers we’ve written about Agile and Lean development. [...]
How to get your boss to give you what you want
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November 5, 2010
As you know, our white paper “How to Sell Agile to Your Boss” can give you sensible answers to some of your boss’ tough questions about Agile—but is that enough? After all, your software project is important and you don’t want to hand it over to just any development firm. We understand where you’re coming [...]
Top 10 Ways to Make the Accounting Gods Rain Fire on Your Software Project
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October 21, 2010
After rereading our white paper “Your Software Project…Approved: Discover Agile’s CapEx/OpEx Advantage”, we realized that some critical information was missing. In the paper, we explained how Agile gives you the flexibility to capitalize a larger percentage of software development costs. And yes, that still means you can start your projects with less OpEx. What we [...]
Architech is a Gold Sponsor at Agile Tour ’10 Toronto conference
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September 27, 2010
We are pleased to announce that Architech is a Gold Sponsor of the Agile Tour ’10 Toronto Conference. The event is being held October 20th in Toronto’s financial district at the Toronto Board of Trade. This year’s conference will be bigger and better, with 4 concurrent tracks and Martin Fowler as the keynote speaker. Architech [...]
Does Agile Mean No Architecture?
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September 9, 2010
In our white paper “Sprint Zero: Where Your Software Project Begins”, we talk about the planning and preparation phase of our Agile software development process. As you may have noticed, one of Sprint Zero’s most striking features is its short duration. This often raises questions. Some people assume that Agile is undertaken at the expense [...]