Jack Milunsky01/14/10
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Introduction
If you're not already a member of the Scrum development group on
Yahoo, you really should join. There's a fortune of information
changing hands and you can learn so much from the interactions. Just
recently there was a huge debate on the...
Kelly Waters01/13/10
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Back in September 2009, I ran a poll on what agile project management software people would recommend. I was amazed at the response - so far (Jan 2010), about 2,000 people have voted!For those that haven't been back to the poll to see the results, here they...
Lyndsey Clevesy01/12/10
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In this interview, Ian Culling, the CTO at VersionOne, explains how agile methodologies can be liberating for developers. He says, "There's so many reasons why it's a better place to be. I found that there's a large population in established...
Mendelt Siebenga01/12/10
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Pair programming is one of the more controversial extreme
programming practices. Having two people work on the same piece of code
at the same time looks very unpractical and inefficient to someone not
familiar with this practice. Pair programming...
Mitch Pronschinske01/11/10
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Today's new version release of Perforce's Software Configuration Management (SCM) system contains a new shelving feature, real-time metadata replication, and additional functionality for working offline. Version 2009.2 also has improved system...
James Shore01/11/10
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There's been a lot said about certification lately. I think it's a
natural outgrowth of Agile's growing popularity. Unfortunately, I think
it's also an outgrowth of the continued watering-down of Agile,
which--if we're not careful--will lead to Agile...
Hamlet D'Arcy01/11/10
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Always in search of the absolute minimum of ceremony, my last team
"discovered" a useful agile practice that takes 60 seconds from start
to end: the ROTI Meeting.After every meeting, on the way out the door, draw a diagonal line on the whiteboard...
Mitch Pronschinske01/11/10
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Kanban looks like it's becoming the next big trend in agile
development. With its simple, adaptive approach to work organization,
Kanban's Lean approach to software development may become even more
popular than Scrum. Although Scrum is fresh and...
Mike Cottmeyer01/08/10
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I mentioned a while ago that Dennis and I were planning to blog our
way through this book we are writing. We'll, over the holidays I really
got serious about writing this thing, and we dropped a pretty detailed
chapter outline, and almost 7000 words into...
Mitch Pronschinske01/08/10
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Mark Lines is a Co-founder of Unified Process Mentors who also works on IBM's worldwide advisory board for methods. He's familiar with almost every flavor of agile. "It seems like every couple of years there's a hot new methodology," said Lines...
Mitch Pronschinske01/07/10
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There's no single formula for agile transition. Many agile consulting agencies aren't adaptive enough to take the organization's context into account. In these cases, agile can feel forced and employees will resist its implementation. Some will even...
Mike Cottmeyer01/07/10
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Part of our problem discussing value is that value is a pretty elusive
concept. What is valuable to me might not be valuable to you. It is
easy to blur the line between what might be considered a valuable
contribution and something that actually adds value...
Jack Milunsky01/06/10
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Introduction
I blogged about this some time ago and then posted the blog on various agile forums to judge peoples responses.
Most of the responses were well reasoned, however, one of the
responses I received shocked me somewhat and so I feel that it's...
Mike Cottmeyer01/04/10
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When I'm giving talks or teaching a class, I often talk about how I
think about nearly everything in my life as a project. So much so that
my wife sometimes complains that she is not a project that I have to
manage! She get's tired of talking about risk...
Frank Kelly12/31/09
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"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to
suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous bugs, Or to take arms
against a sea of defects, And by opposing end them." (with props to Bill S.)In
the past few years it's become more and more acceptable to...
Mitch Pronschinske12/30/09
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Software development methodologies, like the technologies they produce, have have continued their march forward. 2009 saw some significant changes in how companies develop software. Scrum, XP, and Kanban have emerged as the three core means to agility,...
Frank Kelly12/30/09
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No . . . . not THOSE three steps!Anyway, now that we're
approaching the end of the calendar year, invariably many folks are
filling out self-evaluations and managers are presiding over year-end
reviews, and choosing raises and bonuses for their...
Jared Richardson12/29/09
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A topic that came up repeatedly this week at Agile Development Practices
was whether we should teach people steps or principles. Most, if not
all, of the thought leaders and industry experts don't want to provide
steps. We've all seen people take steps...
Jack Milunsky12/28/09
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Introduction
I may have blogged about this previously. I have written so many
blogs, I can't recall any more. However questions regarding Sprint
length surface on the forums regularly.
As per usual, the answers one must give always depends on the
context...
Mitch Pronschinske12/28/09
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The Enterprise-level SCM (Software Configuration Management) market has a lot of competitors. Companies like Perforce, Accurev, and PVCS sell robust SCM tools while other providers have a complete ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) solution, such as MKS...
Martin Fowler12/24/09
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There's been a few posts over the last couple of months about
TechnicalDebt that's raised the question of what kinds of design
flaws should or shouldn't be classified as Technical Debt. A good example of this is Uncle Bob's post saying a
mess is not...
Richard Durnall12/23/09
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In 1979 a group
of western dignitaries visited Japan to learn more about the manufacturing
models that had been applied to great success. Konosuke Matsushita, the
president of Matsushita Corporation (Panasonic, Legend, Technics etc.),...
Kelly Waters12/23/09
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This is a guest blog post from Bruno Sbille..."During the latest phase of our project, I had to work with a team of 7 people . But none of them were 100% on the project. To describe the situation we had: Two team members 80% on projectTwo...
Mike Cottmeyer12/22/09
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Wednesday I published a post called "Why is Agile so Hard to Sell?".
If you haven't checked out the comment thread, you should really take a
look. Most of the comments were really supportive and added serious
value (no pun intended) to the...
Mitch Pronschinske12/22/09
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Just a few weeks ago, Electric Cloud launched the first GA version of SparkBuild, a free GNU Make (gmake) and NMAKE-based build tool that offers true build avoidance. Windows and Open Source Linux developers writing software in C/C++ will find that...
