Selling Agile to clients

The world of software development has changed. The world of web development is catching up. Agile is the future, waterfall is past – but persuading clients can be tricky.

This post is all about how to persuade a client that Agile is not only right for them, its the only sensible choice, with a few facts and sample answers to their inevitable questions.

Introduction to Agile Practices

Heard a lot about this Agile melarkey? Wondered what it involves? This post explains the processes and practices in running a project using an Agile approach.

It covers the concepts of the approach, explains the processes involved. Describes the meetings (or ceremonies) you should have, what to discuss and what their outcomes should be. It also explains who should do what, and when.

Wordpress rating plugin performance issue

I noticed pages on my blog were loading a bit slowly, make that ridiculously slowly, sometimes 25 seconds or more. I know my dedicated server is pretty old and low tech now, but 25 seconds! That’s crazy. So I decided to dig around and find out why.