SCRUM For Business Not Just Development

August 7, 2009 – 8:00 am | by Karl Rohde
Where does SCRUM fit into business? Is it just in development? I don’t think so. I am at the tail end of a project with a company that can’t quite work out if it is a bloated corporate with steady revenues, or a start-up bootstrapping and waging a guerrilla war against larger, cash rich [...]

Tags: bootstrapping, management systems, Project Management, SCRUM, start-up

No Comments | Posted in » Consultancy, Productivity, Project Management, Start-Ups

The Lost Art – Defensive Programming

July 9, 2009 – 9:41 pm | by Karl Rohde
Nearly twenty years ago, when I first got into software development, one of the things drummed into me was “always assume the worst, be defensive in your coding”. Somewhere in the last twenty years, that seems to have changed to “don’t worry, the framework will look after that”. I recently undertook a code review for a client, [...]
5 Comments | Posted in » Consultancy, Project Management, Technology

Crisis: Project Turnaround Part 1

June 4, 2009 – 7:35 am | by Karl Rohde
Your project is overdue, there have been cost overruns, and the final destination is still out of reach.  In this series of posts I will be covering the process of turning a crisis project around. This probably sounds all too familiar to many project managers, development managers, business owners, and even company board members. It’s so [...]

Tags: Failed Projects, IT consultancy, It Project, Management, Project Management

No Comments | Posted in » Consultancy, PHP, Productivity, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Software Review