What the Agile Alliance Australia should be
29 Jan 2010 1:20am GMT The Agile Alliance Australia (A3[*1]) was formed at the Agile Australia 2009 conference with and an interim board. The goal of the interim board, as I remember it, was to setup the foundations for A3 and quickly hold another election (hence ‘interim’) to transition to a fully functioning body. The A3 did start to talk [...]
Agile 2009
2 Sep 2009 8:04am GMT About four months ago we realized that Agile Bench was going to be ready at around the same time as Agile 2009 so I booked my tickets and then hunkered down to get a minimum viable product (MVP) in order to collect feedback from the elite of the agile world. I was truely lucky to [...]
Is the Product Backlog an Idealog?
9 Apr 2009 1:03pm GMT What is a product backlog? I think most people who are working to the agile ethos will agree with the Scrum Alliance’s Guide description as “… the master list of all functionality desired in the product.” This definition is open to interpretation. It’s that bit about “all functionality desired” that gets me. Does this include [...]
Yellow Lab in Desktop Magazine
19 Mar 2009 5:57am GMT Matthew Magain from Desktop magazine wrote an article about the work we are doing at Sensis in the Yellow Lab project of which I’m the technical lead. The Lab‘s purpose it to explore new business models, user experiences and technologies and the article goes on to talk about the things we’ve done. We are honored [...]
My WordPress install was hacked – oh no!
3 Feb 2009 3:46am GMT My WordPress 2.6.1 install was hacked a few weeks ago and it was serving up advertisments for all kinds of dubious products. I noticed this because my friends were telling me that FireFox had marked my site as malware. Great. 50% of the people I polled got the error when checking out my site. I [...]