Project failure rate still high. Agile is the answer.

23 Mar

Posted by Peter Flynn as Agile, Developers Interest, Development Processes, Office Stuff, Project Management, SCRUM

A recent study shows how a disturbing number of development projects still fail due to poor upfront analysis.
I think that this oversimplifies – the devil is in the detail. From experience it is about far more than just “the wrong scope” (I’m referring to the project requirements as the “scope”) – it is also about [...]

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Online convenience for travel claims

11 Mar

Posted by Peter Flynn as Office Stuff, Products, Ruby on rails, South Africa, WWW Site, Web 2.0

In response to a recent stipulation enforced by SARS (South African Revenue Service), which states that effective 1 March 2009, South African tax payers will be required to properly track their travel and related expenses in order to qualify for rebates, we’ve launched a free web application that enables users to accomplish this online.
Available through [...]

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High Business Value, Low Complexity, Low Effort

02 Mar

Posted by Peter Flynn as Agile, Consulting, Developers Interest, Office Stuff, SCRUM

Fact: small technical implementations can sometimes have big perceived or real business benefits for clients…
White Wall Web recently worked with RE/MAX of Southern Africa to deliver a new digital initiative which “allows sales associates with profiles or accounts on major social networking sites (such as Facebook or MySpace) to add, manage and organise property listings [...]