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Agile On The Beach 2014
We are proud to have sponsored and presented at Agile On The Beach 2014! Last week, we headed down to Cornwall for the popular Agile On The…
Certified Scrum Professional
We are delighted to announce that our Commercial Director, Aaron, has successfully completed and achieved his Certified Scrum Professional accreditation from the Scrum Alliance. This will now…
Agile Team Health Check
We’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to work out if an Agile team is healthy. By healthy I broadly mean happy and productive. It’s not…
There Is No Agile
I spoke at Agile Yorkshire this month on a topic that I have touched on in my blog a few times. “There Is No Agile” When I…
What Do I Do When My Team Goes Agile?
Agile methods are pretty clear about what ScrumMasters, developers, testers, UX designers do on a team, but a lot of other people start to worry when the…
Why Should We Build Small User Stories?
The topic of feature (or User Story) size is usually a surprising one for teams that are new to Agile. Teams are frequently used to working and…
Certified Scrum Coach!
For seven years I have been training, coaching and consulting on Scrum, Agile and lean software development practices. I have coached teams to deliver immensely successful projects…
There Is No Agile
“Before I learned martial arts, a punch was just a punch and a kick was just a kick. When I studied martial arts, a punch was no…
Sir Alex Ferguson – Agile Software Development Guru
Now with McKenna Consultants being born and bred in Yorkshire, it takes something special to give credit to someone the other side of the Pennines. But credit…
Agile Software Testing
Our approach to Agile testing hasn’t really changed much over the years, although we have got better at formalising it. After seven years of using whiteboards, we…