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...
Mitch Pronschinske12/21/09
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Business Process Modeling Notation is "one of the most widely adopted modeling standards for business analysis," according to Richard Mark Soley, the Object Management Group (OMG) chairman and CEO. The 2.0 version the BPMN specification was...
Shlomi Ben-haim12/21/09
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I'll be 40 in
two months, which made me think about the ungrateful high-tech market
that employs more than 15M software developers worldwide. At this age,
software developers face the tremendous stress of being too young to
retire, yet too old to continue...
Mark Lines12/21/09
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OverviewWe all know that terms such as “iteration”,
“project manager”, and “daily stand-up meetings” are extremely
difficult for software development professionals to comprehend. To
simplify things, we have created a better methodology...
Mitch Pronschinske12/18/09
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Tasktop just announced a newly certified Eclipse Mylyn connector for another enterprise-level agile management suite. In March 2010 Tasktop Pro will release a Mylyn connector for VersionOne's Agile project management platform. With this announcement,...
Michael Dubakov12/18/09
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Kanban looks so simple. In theory. Map your flow, set limits, draw some
lines and stick stories on the wall. There you go. Is that it?
Obviously, no. One of the hardest things is to change your behavior, shift from “push mindset” to “pull mindset”....
Mitch Pronschinske12/18/09
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Sometimes the best examples of Agile software development come from the Agile tool companies themselves. Developers who use Agile implementation software are very likely to have feedback for new features since they work on new features in their own...
Michael Dubakov12/17/09
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Code base of a large project is getting worse over time. I hope
there are lucky exceptions, but in general it is true for most
projects. The reasons are quite obvious:
More and more features. It leads to increased complexity.Shortcuts and hacks to support...
Dean Leffingwell12/17/09
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In this three part article series, co-author Pete Behrens and I provide an overview on the derivation and
application of user stories, which are the primary agile mechanism that carries
customer’s requirements through the agile software development value...
Mike Cottmeyer12/17/09
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What I find incredibly interesting is why defining value is so hard.
Agile proponents have been beating the value drum since the very
beginning. Put the customer in the room... understand their needs...
build what ever they want... deliver software in...
