This is the fifth and final article in a series of articles about Lean Inception. Be sure to check them all out. So, you’ve read up on Lean Inception, applied our Lessons Learned, and successfully created your first two iteration canvases. What’s next? Are you done with Lean Inception until the next project? We took […]
Read MoreThis article is the fourth in a series of articles about our experience with Lean Inception. Be sure to check out our other posts. You Will Revisit Earlier Work When you first look at Lean Inception with its breakdown of exercises and its week-long timeline, it looks straightforward—a simple process of stepping through one target […]
Read MoreThis article is the third in a series of articles about our experience with Lean Inception. Be sure to check out our other posts. Don’t Let MVP Get In the Way The conversation around scope is crucial to not only defining what the scope is, but also what the scope isn’t. Is it the final […]
Read MoreThis article is the second in a series of articles about our experience with Lean Inception. Be sure to check out our other posts. At Foci, when we completed our own Lean Inception process, we ended up with some solid artifacts and a good understanding of our Minimum Viable Product (MVP). We also learned a […]
Read MoreThis article is the first in a series of articles about our experience with Lean Inception. Be sure to check out our other posts. Lean Inception is the combination of Design Thinking and Lean StartUp to decide the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It is “a workshop divided into several steps and activities that will guide […]
Read MoreLarge enterprises usually have many programming languages across their departments. These departments, often located in different cities, will build teams out of what they see as the best-available local resources. It’s fairly common to find large-scale enterprise or government groups that have applications written in .NET and Java, never mind the plethora of other languages […]
Read MoreContinuous integration can be a tough sell to managers. It’s hard to describe the need for extra time and resources to build automated tests that should mimic what is already being done by developers. This advocacy can be especially difficult early in development when CI failures are common and the pipeline will need a lot […]
Read MoreYou’ve heard people talk about enterprise service buses and you think it’s time you learned out to use one. You read an awesome blog post about this new thing called Orbital Bus and you think it would be a good project to play around with. Where should you start? Let’s start here. Understanding the Architecture I’m […]
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