Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile
processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in
agile software...
3 replies - 1066 views - 11/20/09 by stephenrpalmer in Articles
Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become
very popular in the last few years. It is based on an estimation
technique known as...
0 replies - 3500 views - 11/11/09 by AgileForAll in Articles
DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this
exclusive chapter from 'Agile Coaching' by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. This excerpt was...
3 replies - 685 views - 11/11/09 by lyndsey in Articles
Most folks don't like change. I know I don't. But one things certain,
adopting an Agile approach to software development requires much change
in an...
0 replies - 195 views - 11/04/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles
From a complexity perspective, there is a good reason why teams in
an organization must be able to make decisions together. This follows
logically from the...
1 replies - 1613 views - 10/30/09 by jurgenappelo in Articles
I had a recent conversation with some folks who were desperate to
"processize" everything. They were asking about Scrum Master
certification and...
0 replies - 550 views - 10/22/09 by slott in News
In late 2008, ThoughtWorks was called in to remove legacy systems and initiate an Agile cultural shift for a large international communications firm. ...
0 replies - 1158 views - 10/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
According to a recent scientific study,
using TDD increases development (coding) time by 15-30%, but results in
40-90% fewer defects. This study was done...
10 replies - 2035 views - 10/12/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles
I recently participated in a Scrum development discussion thread on
Yahoo Groups where one member new to Scrum asked the following: "Our
burndown...
0 replies - 440 views - 10/07/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles
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...
0 replies - 1971 views - 10/05/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. ...
2 replies - 3096 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles
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...
2 replies - 833 views - 09/29/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles
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...
0 replies - 5757 views - 09/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
In this interview, recorded at the recent Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile at IBM Rational, shares his findings...
0 replies - 8271 views - 09/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
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...
0 replies - 2251 views - 09/24/09 by Matt Raible in Articles
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...
1 replies - 480 views - 09/16/09 by damonpoole in Articles
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...
0 replies - 1073 views - 09/08/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles
0 replies - 1711 views - 08/27/09 by srpsco in Book Reviews
Over the past few months of writing Leading Agile... doing the
Cutter Paper... and now preparing to write this book... we've talked a
lot about different...
1 replies - 368 views - 08/19/09 by mcottmeyer in News
VersionOne
announced today their Summer '09 release introducing a new Storyboard, support for
Lean / Kanban and significant performance improvements...
0 replies - 663 views - 08/04/09 by CodeJustin in News
There has been a long thread in the kanbandev group at Yahoo about
how to define what a kanban system is, and is not. Defining kanban is
important because...
5 replies - 3835 views - 06/09/09 by Henrik.Martensson in News
Quite frequently I am out talking to traditional project managers
or new agile teams that want to learn a little bit more about all this
agile stuff....
2 replies - 932 views - 05/29/09 by mcottmeyer in News
There has been some noticeable increase in interest in Kanban
recently, with a number of people asking for more basic info, and more
people writing new...
2 replies - 6177 views - 05/26/09 by kjscotland in News
Sara Peyton published a really informative blog on Lean Software development.
Essentially it's a pretty detailed overview of the characteristics of
Lean....
2 replies - 1043 views - 05/21/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles
Here I am.. Sunday afternoon.. Mother's day. Just got back from taking
the family out for a low key Mother's day celebration and now I've got
a little quiet...
0 replies - 604 views - 05/11/09 by mcottmeyer in News
Prior to the Lean & Kanban conference this week... I had the
opportunity to participate in the formation of this organization... and
as a result have...
0 replies - 431 views - 05/07/09 by mcottmeyer in News
When we talk about scaling agile... we are really talking about how to
coordinate the activities of many small teams to do the business of the
enterprise....
0 replies - 373 views - 04/20/09 by mcottmeyer in News
Okay... everyone caught up now?It was kind of neat to spend the
time yesterday going back over all those old posts and interesting to
see how the process of...
1 replies - 390 views - 04/08/09 by mcottmeyer in News
I decided to do another article collection post. As I mentioned in the last post that
I am extremely busy these days as we're preparing to launch the...
0 replies - 2472 views - 04/03/09 by arnonrgo in News
If
you are going to embrace any form of agile, you need to start by
thinking about your teams as the elemental building blocks of your
agile organization....
0 replies - 402 views - 03/12/09 by mcottmeyer in News
Most likely you have heard about the recent debate on technical
blogosphere about the importance of software quality in software
development cycle. There are...
0 replies - 1500 views - 02/16/09 by keyvan in News
Companies I work with desperately want reliable estimates. In
reality, they need them so they can run their business. Businesses
really want a...
1 replies - 656 views - 01/30/09 by mcottmeyer in Articles
Software development is hard work. We have been taught that the best way to solve the tough challenges inherent to software development efforts is to treat...
4 replies - 7651 views - 02/24/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
When we think about a project plan, what do we typically think about?
Most people I talk with think a project plan is the schedule…. they
think about the...
0 replies - 1627 views - 11/03/08 by mcottmeyer in Articles
Many companies want the benefits of agile but are not ready to make the
organizational changes necessary to take full advantage of the
methodology. Companies...
0 replies - 620 views - 10/02/08 by mcottmeyer in Articles
A
few days ago, one of my Twitter buddies asked me to explain how the UI
designers fit in on an agile team. I have some experience working with
dedicated...
2 replies - 1344 views - 09/16/08 by mcottmeyer in Articles
Okay... so my writing is slowing down again. I came of weeks of preparing for Agile 2008 and now am in the thick of getting ready for the APLN Leadership...
0 replies - 4666 views - 09/07/08 by mcottmeyer in News
While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...
0 replies - 5749 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News
This question is one I've run into a few times recently. It's not
a question I can answer quickly as the question is based on a false
premise about the...
0 replies - 1745 views - 08/19/08 by martinfowler in News
"When software development teams move to agile methods, experienced project managers often struggle-doubtful about the new approach and uncertain about...
0 replies - 2086 views - 07/10/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles
[img_assist|nid=1518|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=250|height=167]My mission in this article - to get rid of the illusion that your Software...
5 replies - 5750 views - 03/04/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
