Steven Lott10/22/09
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I had a recent conversation with some folks who were desperate to
"processize" everything. They were asking about Scrum Master
certification and what standards organizations define the "official"
Scrum method.Interestingly, I also saw a...
Mark Needham10/21/09
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I've read quite frequently about the challenges we will experience when adding new people onto teams, including Fred Brooks' 'The Mythical Man Month',
but having seen quite a few new people join the project that I've been
working on over the last few...
Jack Milunsky10/16/09
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An interesting question was brought up in a recent LinkedIn discussion thread: "Is
velocity the right approach to measure productivity of team members
working in Scrum. If not, then how can productivity of team members be
measured in Scrum?" Here...
Ted Neward10/16/09
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The above quote was tossed off by Billy Hollis at the patterns&practices Summit this week in Redmond. I passed the quote out to the Twitter masses, along with my +1, and predictably, the comments started coming in shortly thereafter. Rather than limit the...
Tiago Simões10/14/09
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OutSystems released a free version of the Agile Platform that allows developers to create web business applications and explore Agile techniques without any vendor lock-in.
The Agile Platform Community Edition is a full version of the Agile Platform for...
Mitch Pronschinske10/12/09
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More improvements in large-scale agile software development are
emerging today as Danube Technologies has released the 4.1 version of ScrumWorks Pro,
the only software tool designed specifically to manage Scrum. The
program's new features for...
Lyndsey Clevesy10/08/09
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Scrum is beginning to emerge as an increasingly popular choice for organizations seeking to improve software quality, decrease time-to-market, and stay competitive. Evolving in tandem a new generation of agile project management software and Scrum training...
Jack Milunsky10/07/09
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I recently participated in a Scrum development discussion thread on
Yahoo Groups where one member new to Scrum asked the following: "Our
burndown chart's remaining work line always goes up. As a Scrum Master,
what do I have to do to make it go...
Kelly Waters10/06/09
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I think I've been pretty successful in my career. But if I was better
at planning, I wouldn't have achieved half the things I've achieved in
my career! In fact, I wouldn't even have started some of them...In
reality, there are some things you can plan, and...
Kirk Knoernschild10/05/09
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For those of you interested in Lean and Kanban, but not much
knowledge yet, it can be tough filter the noise and find information
explaining what they are and how they might be different from what
you’re already doing (agile, Scrum, etc.). Since top 10...
Mark Needham10/02/09
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I went to watch the latest ThoughtWorks Australia Quarterly Technology Briefing in Sydney on Wednesday where my colleague Lindy Stephens, Suncorp's Josh Melville and Lonely Planet's Nigel Dalton presented on 'Agile Governance – Managing the Enterprise...
Nitin Bharti09/30/09
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Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. Conspiracy theorists, cynics, and even customers might view pair programming as an attempt by the...
Jack Milunsky09/29/09
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Many of us have come to love Scrum, including me. Scrum has been a
huge success overall and has turned many a development team around and
for the better. Yet in my opinion, I think Scrum falls short in at
least one area.
Concept to Cash
Firstly, it's...
Nitin Bharti09/24/09
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If there were ever any doubts about agile's ability to scale within large organizations, Sue McKinney might have some encouraging words of advice. The VP of Development Transformation within the IBM Software Group spearheaded what is perhaps one of the...
Matt Raible09/24/09
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This evening I attended the Denver Rails User Group (a.k.a. DeRailed) to hear a presentation by Marty Haught. It was titled "Lean Teams: Doing more with less" and the following are my notes from the event.
Today's talk is about "Rocking with...
Justin Sargent09/22/09
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ThoughtWorks Studios today announced new versions of its Twist test
management and Cruise release management products. Together with Mingle,
an Agile project management tool, the new versions of Twist and Cruise
strengthen ThoughtWorks Studios’ recently...
Richard Perfect09/22/09
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As a developer you have just finished your latest bit of code and have released it to the test team. It took a little longer than you thought it would but finally you can say to your project manager that this task is now 100% complete. The test team receives...
Jack Milunsky09/21/09
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In all the Scrum literature, there is much rhetoric on focusing on
delivering value but there is very little explanation on how you
calculate it. Exactly how do you calculate value? I came across an
interesting article by Ryan Shriver called...
Damon Poole09/21/09
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If you are interested in going Agile, but you are surrounded by folks
that are not, don’t despair. You can still experience significant
benefit from Agile on your own. Also, after reading this post you won't
be able to say that somebody is preventing...
Damon Poole09/16/09
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This post is primarily geared toward folks who have been doing Scrum
for at least 6-9 months and are curious about what options are out
there for further improving their process. One reason for looking
beyond Scrum may be that you are bumping your head on...
Nitin Bharti09/10/09
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In this interview, recorded at the Agile 2009 Conference, Cyndi Mitchell, Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Studios, discusses the company's new Adaptive ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) offering, which was unveiled last month. According to Cyndi, the...
Jack Milunsky09/08/09
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One of the killers on software development projects is
Work-In-Progress. We have learned from the Lean experts, and from the
teachings on the Toyota Production System, that too much
work-in-progress is a liability. Just yesterday I was asked to spot...
Kirk Knoernschild09/07/09
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The conclusion of Programming with the Stars at Agile 2009
was an awesome event. A huge thank you to Jeff Nielsen and Joshua
Kerievsky for coordinating the event and pulling together the great
list of judges and contestants. A huge thank you to the judges...
Nitin Bharti09/02/09
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The third annual Houston TechFest will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at University of Houston's Main Campus. This free event is the largest of its kind in Texas and provides a great opportunity to learn about the latest trends in information...
Jack Milunsky09/01/09
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Leading on from last week where I described that there are two main
parts to user stories, the user (or persona or role) and the story (a
short description of the intended functionality), this week's blog is
intended to focus on specific details on how to...
