I've spent the last 10 months working with a client in Sheffield. Today was my last day with them and I'm really sad to be leaving. I only went there for 6 weeks initially to help them get an important agile project off the ground, but I stayed on to help bring the project to completion and to help kick off a few smaller agile projects and to teach the companies PMs about how to manage agile projects.
Along the way we discovered that incremental development works nicely with cobol, that FIT is a wonderful productivity tool, that starting out a project with the explicit goal of "rebuilding trust" is an extraordinarily powerful way of rebuilding trust, that customers who trust you are so so so much easier to work with, that developers are excellent planners if you teach them how to use critical chain scheduling, and that agile projects can produce lots of accurate and necessary documentation if it is needed. Oh, and what's more is that the project was fixed price, fixed scope, fixed schedule and ... Successful.
I do feel really sad to leave though. I made some good friends in sheffield.
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