When invoicing on an Agile project, consultancies are often asked to provide granular reporting of daily tasks. This allows the client to see an exact cost breakdown of each feature developed – providing a mechanism for reconciling project delivery costs. Quite often, however, consultancies will track development tasks independently to the way they track and [...]
Introducing Agile concepts to a business environment plagued by traditional approaches (waterfall) can be a political nightmare. Here are a few short strategies to help alleviate the pain. 1. Don’t call it ‘Agile’. The word ‘Agile’ can come with bad connotations such as ‘corner cutting’ or ‘passing fad’, which makes companies skeptical about adopting the [...]
As a partner in a consulting firm for many years, who has just moved to Bright Green, I am all too familiar with the eternal struggle to balance the supply and demand of resources. Life seemed to swing, somewhat rapidly, between a frantic search for clients to sell work to, and a frantic search for [...]