Creating thin slices has many benefits
Your students gain a lot from developing their work in thin slices I’ve covered a number of ways to look at slicing product development the… Read More »Creating thin slices has many benefits
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Teach students to develop thin slices across relevant layers of the app
Build thin vertical slices of the application to learn more quickly In the previous post I wrote about possible ways to expand thin slices of… Read More »Teach students to develop thin slices across relevant layers of the app
Part-time agile guides focused work for teams
Part-time work goes best when you take the time to focus your efforts. Students doing their software engineering team projects alongside other courses face a… Read More »Part-time agile guides focused work for teams
Part-time agile works best when students work in the open
Working in the open speeds up the feedback loops so that you learn more quickly. Part-time students are in more need of agile practices than… Read More »Part-time agile works best when students work in the open
Part-time agile raises importance of team coordination
Use more collaboration to achieve better outcomes in part-time teams. Students on degree A have only one course during their team project, so can devote… Read More »Part-time agile raises importance of team coordination
Part-time agile means shaping work well too
Make it easy to pick up, and do work when time is available. When I was an exchange student in (West) Germany at a high… Read More »Part-time agile means shaping work well too
Guide student teams on part-time agile
Making agile work when it’s not full-time means attending to your schedule A student brought me up short the other week, and his question has… Read More »Guide student teams on part-time agile
Convince students to pair and mob in their teams
The work is easier when shared with others than done on your own. I find it frustrating when you can see a team could be… Read More »Convince students to pair and mob in their teams
Teams should consider collaboration phases in their work
Always be collaborating and consider how this impacts your work When I started thinking about team collaboration more I realised that teams need to do… Read More »Teams should consider collaboration phases in their work
Organise meetings to suit your development cadence
Meet when you need to do the work and make the decisions that lead to the work Student teams seem to think the work will… Read More »Organise meetings to suit your development cadence