Damian Dingley

In the move to electrification is BMW as Agile as we are led to believe? I’ve been keeping an eye on the electric vehicle (EV) market for a while now, with an eye on making the leap to an all-electric vehicle as my next purchase and moving away from the internal combustion engine as my main mode of transportation. Leading the manufacturing field must be Elon Musk’s Tesla, one of the first to market with by far the most advanced battery and electric motor...

In my years as an Agile Coach and Scrum Master, there’s one topic that generates a look of bewilderment on the faces of everyone: effort estimation on the ubiquitous user story. Let’s take a closer look at the confusion and break down the issues at hand. It comes down to the way the process is explained together with the purpose of user story pointing. In the end, story pointing is all about providing predictability. Software teams are notoriously unpredictable....

Over the past few months I’ve had the opportunity to spend time at one or two DevOps conferences, a couple of Agile conferences and one where both practices were covered simultaneously. There’s quite a lot of discussion around the differences between the two and you can even find examples of when Agile and DevOps are pitched against each other. Try entering “Agile vs. DevOps” in your next Internet search. At the Agile & DevOps West conference in Las Vegas earlier...