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About Me | Steve Handy's Blog
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Steve Handy's Blog. Musings on Holistic Software Development. On May 26, 2014. I’m a lover of history, a follower of technology old and new, I love the fells of Northern England. My professional life is almost exclusively focused on helping organisations large and small operate more effectively. I’m a coach, mentor, and a listener, thinker and sounding board for ideas. My greatest pleasure is in seeing the people I work with succeed. Having observed the evidence of the power in self-organising teams I am...
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Introduction to HSD - HSD
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Experience, Empiricism, Excellence. Please share with your colleagues and friends. Portfolio and Programme Management. Holistic Software Development is a free. Business process framework supporting simple, complicated and complex. Organistions involved in software develpoment. Visualized as a number of maps (the small picture. HSD is about the business of doing software development, from strategy. HSD achieves the scaling of lean. Philosophy to the entire organisation. To keep track of our updates. Worki...
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Planning - HSD
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Experience, Empiricism, Excellence. Please share with your colleagues and friends. Portfolio and Programme Management. Planning is the process of defining an intention for, and making arrangements for, achieving something of Business Value. Plans should be understood to be “best guesses” rather than accurate predictions of the future. Ldquo;No plan survives contact with the enemy.”. The purpose of a plan is to answer:. What is the work? Where are we now? When will the work be done? As well as these produ...
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Requirements - HSD
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Experience, Empiricism, Excellence. Please share with your colleagues and friends. Portfolio and Programme Management. Is a condition or capability that must be met by a system or component to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other form of request. Holistic Software Development expresses a slightly bigger Requirements stack than is typical for simple agile processes because it covers both product delivery and the strategic direction. Elaboration, high level planning. Each level of integrat...
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Definition of Done - HSD
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Experience, Empiricism, Excellence. Please share with your colleagues and friends. Portfolio and Programme Management. A Definition of Done describes what done means in an unambiguous way so that interacting individuals, teams or organizations can work together effectively. Where transactional boundaries do exist, clarity over definitions of done, both in terms of incoming requests and quality of output is necessary. We recommend developing acceptance criteria associated with work requests, requirements.
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Governance - HSD
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Experience, Empiricism, Excellence. Please share with your colleagues and friends. Portfolio and Programme Management. Ldquo;Governance” is defined as the means by which the leading authority guides and monitors the values and goals of an organization. Because this definition uses some very broad terms such as “leading authority” and “organization” it is possible to apply the concept of governance at many levels in IT organizations. There is governance in teams. Programme and portfolio management. An imp...
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Big Picture - HSD
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Experience, Empiricism, Excellence. Please share with your colleagues and friends. Portfolio and Programme Management. For smaller and simpler organizations we recommend the Small Picture. Of Holistic Software Development. Click on any part of the big picture. Below or have a look at the main Views. From the the menu. Please share this page. Holistic Software Consulting Ltd. 2016 Holistic Software Consulting Ltd.
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Views - HSD
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Experience, Empiricism, Excellence. Please share with your colleagues and friends. Portfolio and Programme Management. Views provide slices up, down, across and through the big picture. Of holistic software engineering. They give an overview of a particular topic in HSD and link to detailed practice information, external references or whatever else is appropriate. Portfolio and Programme Management. Holistic Software Consulting Ltd. 2016 Holistic Software Consulting Ltd.
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Is your project a Death March? | Steve Handy's Blog
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Steve Handy's Blog. Musings on Holistic Software Development. Is your project a Death March? On May 26, 2014. Death March projects are those projects that everybody has heard about where everyone on the team knows the project is pointless yet all the team members persist despite the feeling of impending doom. My first Death March was in 1992 (ouch) I was a C geek on a project looking for a purpose. It was the brainchild of the company Business Leader. What we’d now call the Business Customer. Why didn’t ...
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