A year later, and a lifetime away… I’m changing the focus of Bespoke Agile from consulting work to an open science project aiming to improve agile approaches to product development. From November 2019 through a few weeks ago, my time was spent on Conscious Metrics - a startup that I created to help people who care for individuals with dementia.

The Conscious Metrics project is continuing, but is now in data gathering mode. I am jump-starting the Bespoke Agile site, will add more content over time, and will organize the site into sections that can each be discussed on their own merits.

I look forward to such discussions with anyone interested in agile and process engineering - and who might benefit from shared practical approaches to product development.

Nicholas

Recently, I had an opportunity to give an elevator pitch at the gym... a somewhat random conversation that started as gym banter, and continued on to professional interests…

those good at startups are not always good at scaling

there are risks common to businesses
focus on people and outcomes over tools and orthodoxy
identify and mutate patterns:
- identify a vision
- collaborate on the next problem to solve
- identify the dev/deploy model
- gain consensus on feedback loops to try (ready to fail fast)
- start cycling the various loops; start the engine
- practice sub-patterns, agree on metrics for loops, inputs and outputs
- integrate pattern of smallest deliverable and end-to-end to deploy
- track feature usage and quality throughout life cycle
Plan in that creating software is an adaptive process, and evolutionary
- externalities and environments can change rapidly
- software requires maintenance throughout the life cycle
- Most software is abandoned over time

Relaunch of Bespoke Agile as an open science project..

The elevator pitch