Laws of Agile - Gall’s Law

There are quite a few Law's that underpin Agile, lets start with Gall’s Law — “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.”

Almost every product you use these days have some level of 'Feature Rot' caused by adding more and more features to try and attract new customers or keep existing ones. A great, and funny, video on this is from Des Traynor, link below.

https://youtu.be/9AM6QQlgLSQ

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Increasing Analytical Thinking in Agile Teams

Shameless promotion alert! I did a talk this week with the Agile Auckland meetup that was about increasing analytical thinking in Agile Teams. Agile Auckland kindly filmed the virtual session and its uploaded to YouTube here. If you are passionate about analysis and improving the quality of it in your Agile team, please go and check out the video. A link to the Youtube video is below

Misusing the word Requirements

The more I think about the word #requirements the more I think it is and has been misused for decades, by myself included. Imagine I have a bunch of nuts, I don’t know what size the nuts are which means I don’t know what size spanner I need. I could write a BABOK format Requirement that explains that “The solution shall have a spanner that loosens a nut easily” but no one can build anything from it because we don’t actually know what size spanner to build. We don’t need a requirement. We need more information. How about a hypothesis instead? I believe that if I test a range of spanners on the nuts I will find the right size, I will know when I am successful as the nut will be turned by the spanner without slipping. Now this tells me what I need to do and how I know I will have found an answer. Let’s imagine the result is that we discover we need a 10mm spanner for our 10mm nut. Now I can write a requirement that says The solution shall provide a 10mm spanner that can turn a 10mm nut co...

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