Odd Martin Solheim, a co-worker from ABEO, and Hans Christian Alnæs just got their article titled "Go for the low hanging fruit!" posted on Agile journal. It's an excellent article discussing how you as an professional can improve the way you work. The article talks about how you as an employee can make things change in your company by using certain techniques, and how to focus on your goal (what you want to achieve/change).
The article lists seven steps/points to achieve your goal:
- Make a Change Backlog
- Find the low hanging fruit
- Establish a raiding party
- Establish a success story
- Go to war
- Celebrate!
- Start over
The article is well written and easy to read.
Odd Martin have obviously used some of his experiences from ABEO in the article. Odd Martin is an excellent project manager/Scrum Master, and is one of the people pushing Scrum as the default development method in ABEO. He's also the guy who introduced TargetProcess as a project management system, which works well with the Scrum method.
I've had the pleasure of working with Odd Martin on a project before Christmas. During the project I learned a few new tricks, specially on functional web testing and smoke testing. He also introduced me to the book "ShipIt!", which is an excellent book on shipping software (and at the end of the day, that's what we're trying to do). If you like their article on "the low hanging fruit", you're definitely going to like "ShipIt!".