This blog has been inactive for a while. The reason is that I changed employers and wasn’t doing as much that I considered to be interesting and worth blogging about. I have also started going in a different direction in my career, focusing more and more on agility. In my opinion agility is often misunderstood and that is what I want to focus this blog on for now.

I want to focus on what I consider to be agile software development, the downsides of how it is implemented and some advice around that. Then I will see how things develop in future and let it organically grow from there. I also want there to be a bit of a story through the topics so I plan to cover them in a bit of an ordered sequence for now. Some topics I plan to cover include: –

• The agile manifesto and principles.
• Some of the major methodologies (Scrum, Kanban and XP).
• Meetings, why many are not effective and how to improve them.
• Thoughts around estimating, planning, etc.

Before anyone comments that Scrum is a lightweight framework not a methodology, please realise that the term “lightweight framework” doesn’t really mean anything and doesn’t tell you anything either. Scrum came from empirical process control and and can more fully, and correctly, be described as a process management methodology. Also yes, I might challenge a few commonly held beliefs in the hope of making anyone who reads this blog think about things in a different way. I may be right, I may be wrong with what I write. What is important is that we think about things and have a constructive discussion to help us all improve.