GeekRetreat Stanford – My Personal Experience and Highlights

18 Jan

Posted by Peter Flynn as Developers Interest, PersonL, Ruby on rails, SCRUM, South Africa, Uncategorized, WWW Site

To summarize – GeekRetreat Stanford completely exceeded my expectations and the organizers ( Heather Ford, Justin Spratt and Eve Dmochowska) deserve special recognition for their vision and approach which achieved such a superb result from such a motley crew of delegates. To expand, read the the rest of this post…

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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 [...]

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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 [...]