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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Yesterday, I (proudly) sent the following mail to the office: “We have just officially entered PersonL (last minute) into this years TechCrunch50 Contest We had half applied, decided it was too late, and then they mailed me yesterday and asked me to complete the entry by tomorrow… So we got cracking and churned out a [...]

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Python specific, but has some good general information and principles. Check it out http://www.python.org/pycon/2006/papers/2/pycon06_agiledoc.pdf

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On the flight over to Hanover (which was badly delayed due to a British Airways screw up) I listened to various podcasts about Agile development methods. I became increasingly excited listening to Mary Poppendieck, Scott Ambler, Ken Schwaber, Cliff Berg and Micheal Mahemoff and reading blog entries by Martin Fowler and others each giving their [...]

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