Al Priest’s Blog

I was at XP day last week in London. I thought i’d log my notes here in no particular order. From two sessions about Lean and Kanban – Flow and Cadence, and Using Lean to Evolve Out of Scrum Think about Flow rather than batching to reduce risk and deliver value more quickly, if doing [...]

After hearing about Real Options at XP day, a little example I thought through of how I unknowingly used the technique recently. From Portia, Real Options is a decision-making process for managing uncertainty and risk. It’s a simple and powerful approach that helps us make better informed decisions, as individuals and in groups, by understanding [...]