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 MoreDefine Your Jargon Industry-specific terminology can be easily misunderstood. When certain terms become jargon (i.e., special words or expressions that are used by a particular group) these terms may hold different meanings for different people. Without defining these terms up front, this can make communication difficult both internally and with clients. To further complicate things, […]
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 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 MoreCheck out my latest post on Multi Stage Pipelines & Azure DevOps My latest project utilized automated builds to speed up the deployment life cycle. We are running in an agile process and wanted to leverage continuous integration to help the product owners see new features as soon as possible. What follows is a quick […]
Read MoreI know, at first glance it looks like the cramming together of 3 loosely defined and oft-debated buzzwords into the title, but got your attention didn’t it? So if you will bear with me for a few minutes, I will explain how applying Agile to a much more abstract of an activity such as building […]
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