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Craig Larman 0131111558
In my experience there is always
something about a particular agile
method that you don't like. This book
provides a brilliant examination and
comparison of the methods that let you
make pragmatic choices around how to
combine methods into your overall agile
approach.
I also like tha...
$49.99 : Agile
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2008-11-19 technichristian.net
Agile project management has taken the
software development community by storm,
with terms like sprint and Scrum
becoming part of everyday team
conversations. But as Agile techniques
are incorporated into company practices,
there exists the very real danger that
Agile will be adopted i...
, Tech , Agile
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2008-11-19 IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform
blackbearnh writes "CIO Magazine has an
article up looking at some of the ways
that Agile projects can fail, or Agile
can be misapplied in organizations. Some
of the issues raised may not be new, but
folks might want to pay special
attention to these, since the people
throwing the ston...
, agile , alistair , brock , cio , manifesto , perils , recent
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2008-11-18 Eight to Late
Many corporate IT shops use big design
up-front methodologies to guide their
internal software development
projects. Generally, IT decision
makers seem reluctant to trial
iterative/incremental approaches, which
have proven their worth in diverse
development environments. The best k...
, Corporate , Project , Agile , Book
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Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:00:00 PST www.ebay.com
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2008-11-18 Innovationsmanagement 2.0
Sigrid Schmeisser, Mediengestalterin im
5. Semester, hat die Session am
Donnerstag moderiert:
From
IM_Session1_20081009
Zur Einstimmung
auf Step 7 haben wir uns gemeinsam zwei
Videos angesehen:
Hier die Ergebnisse
aus Step 7:
Download Session 3 - Agile
Entwicklungsmethoden ...
, Agile , Innovationsmanagement , Problem , Agile , agile , agile , SCRUM , timeboxed , XP
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2008-11-18 enthiosys agile product management
{Scott Gilbert, Enthiosys
President}
Here at Enthiosys World
Headquarters, it’s time to start
working on our 2009 corporate goals and
plans. Like most companies we have a
good idea of who we are and what we want
to become, in other words “a
vision”. Like most comp...
, agile , insights-tools
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2008-11-18 Pathfinder Development
Menus and dropdowns seem like attractive
design choices because they conserve
screen real estate while providing users
access to a potentially large number of
commands. But if you resist the easy out
of menus and dropdowns, you may find
that your applications become far more
usable.
Su...
, Agile , UXD , Confluence , Firefox , Flock , User , user
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2008-11-18 PHP::Impact ( [str Blog] )
Here are two useful backlog templates
provided by Agile Software Development.
Both of them are in Excel format (XLS).
Check them out:
Simple Product Backlog
Example
Simple Sprint Backlog
Example
Posted in Agile Development,
Tools
, Agile , Tools
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Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:40:04 PST www.ebay.com
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2008-11-18 ChristopherCummings.com
Yesterday we summarized “Reign Of
Fire” In 10 Screencaps Or Less™.
Now let’s extract a product
management lesson from 2002’s most
dragontastic action/sci-fi film.
One of
Reign’s big conflicts is between
Quinn (played by Christian Bale) and Van
Zan (playe...
, Movies , Product , Agile , Christian , Matthew , Reign
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2008-11-18 Creative Chaos
Jim Shore recently wrote a thoughtful
piece "The Decline And Fall of Agile."
There is a good point-counterpoint
discussion on InfoQ.com.This isn't a big
shock to me; I wrote "Has Agile Jumped
the Shark" Part One and Two in December
of 2006; it even got a little write up
on InfoQ.com b...
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2008-11-18 Arjan`s World
.NET Development Perf Testing in a
Cloud VM (EC2) - Jason Young
Jason took
the step of testing performance of
Amazon’s cloud VM’s by doing
a heavy build using VS2008. Amazon is
faster, and has a lot of advantages.
Also disadvantages though, so you have
to weigh your option...
, LINKBLOG
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James Shore 0596527675
This is an exceptional book -- one that
every developer should read even if they
do not use the methods within.
The book
reads sort of like a recipe book, with
lots of little practices and how to do
them. The early chapters are fairly
prescriptive, presenting XP as a
reasonable basis...
$39.99 : Agile
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2008-11-18 JAOO Community Blog
Performing retrospectives for many
years, it was not until Linda Rising
gave a talk about them at JAOO that I
came to know the label to put on them.
Linda gave me the seminal book on
retrospectives: “Project
Retrospectives - A Handbook for Team
Reviews” by Norman Kerth, whi...
, JAOO , Aino , Diana , Esther , Linda , Norman , retrospectives
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2008-11-18 Exploring Agile Solutions
Now and then someone says something like
"Agile methods won't turn a mediocre
programming into a star. That irritates
me, because bad non-agile methods can
make a very good programmer produce
mediocre results. Without taking into
account their environment, no one will
know how good tha...
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2008-11-18 Creative Chaos
Jim Shore recently wrote a thoughtful
piece "The Decline And Fall of Agile."
There is a good point-counterpoint
discussion on InfoQ.com.This isn't a big
shock to me; I wrote "Has Agile Jumped
the Shark" Part One and Two in December
of 2006; it even got a little write up
on InfoQ.com b...
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2008-11-18 bigvisible.com
One of my favorite teachers in college
was a former managerial consultant and
our class enjoyed being regaled with
stories of her former clients - a
veritable who’s who of major
companies - and the challenges they
faced. I recall one lecture when she was
telling us about reports ...
, Agile , No , Product , agile , Measurement , Metrics , Reports , scrum , Story , Velocity
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2008-11-17 enthiosys agile product management
Luke Hohmann’s article in the
Winter 2008 edition of QRCA Views
(published by the Qualitative Research
Consultants Association) is called
“Tips on Selling Qualitative
Market Research to Agile Software
Developers.”
“The hottest
topic in the software-developmen...
, articles , insights-tools
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Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:27:31 PST www.ebay.com
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Last week was hot in international
scenario on software development. The
SEI (Software Engineering Institute)
recently published a report entitled "
CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both!",
which addresses the integration between
the ideas and practices of the CMMI with
the ideas and pra...
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2008-11-17 Managed Chaos
Following are the code quality criteria
I came up with and asked the team to
rate themselves against it:
This list
will only make sense if you’ve
read the context from the previous
post.
Conceptual Integrity: Does the
design of various components feels
seamless? Do you feel the ...
, Agile , Coaching
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2008-11-17 Arjan`s World
XML Documentation File For Your .Net
Project - It’s Important - Shahar
Y
A reminder to have those XML doc files
created for your project
Drinking from
the Fire Hose – How to Stay Informed
Without Drowning - Dana Coffey
Dana
teaches you how to be social++ without
getting crazy
...
, LINKBLOG
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2008-11-17 Pathfinder Development
Note: It is assumed that you know your
way around GWT and Eclipse for purposes
of this tutorial.
While developing
OpenSocial applications can be a bit
tricky, getting set up to develop can be
a real pain in the neck. For this
installment of OpenSocial and GWT, I'm
going to go through t...
, Agile , Google , GWT , iGoogle , OpenSocial
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2008-11-17 Crunchberry Project
In part 2, I explained how we’re
breaking down our work into tight,
four-day-long iterations, but I
didn’t get into what everyone is
doing during the cycle.
It goes a little
something like this: The design team
sketches designs of the software that
the development team will...
, Uncategorized , agile
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Agile B000B5SG64
Unbelievable! You cannot buy another
guitar of this quality for anywhere
close to $200. Appearance and
workmanship, impeccable. I've been
playing for over 44 years and have
played just about every high-end guitar
made (and owned many of them). I did not
believe all the "hype" that I re...
$340.00 : agile
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2008-11-17 All About Agile Google Group
(This insight arose in a discussion I
had with a co-worker - we are starting
to adopt Scrum in our company. I haven't
seen it presented anywhere else...
hopefully some people would find it
useful in their effort to migrate to
Agile processes.) In a classic
waterfall process, the te...
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2008-11-16 Wikipedia - Recent changes [en]
changed an 'a' to
'the'
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Previous revision
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04:50, 17 November 2008
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Web 2.0 encapsulates the idea of the
proliferation of interconnectivity and
interactivity of web-delivered content.
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James Shore wrote a great post about
the problems he is seeing with agile
adoptions that start with Scrum called
the Decline and Fall of Agile. Please
please please (pretty please) read it
before you read what I am about to write
here! I agree with what James is
saying 100%.
Now...
, How-To , Links , Scrum, , agile , Coaching , Consulting , failure , scrum
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2008-11-16 On Product Management
Having written a fair bit recently about
Agile/Scrum, I found the following post
provided an interesting perspective.
The
Agile Disease by Luke Halliwell
I
don’t agree with everything the
Luke wrote, but a lot of his points make
sense.
A lot of the benefit of Scrum is
handled if ...
, Agile , Collaboration , Culture , Enterprise , Product , Saeed , Scrum
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2008-11-16 Software Process and Measurement Cast
Show Forty Six begins another two part
interview with Ellen Gottesdiener on
agile requirements, facilitation and
other topics. Ellen is the principle
consultant and founder of EBG
Consulting, an author, a public speaker
and all around pundit. Part two will be
included in SPaMCAST 48....
, Agile
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2008-11-16 Object Mentor Blog
So we’ve finally found the answer.
We know who’s to blame.
It’s SCRUM! SCRUM is the reason
that the agile movement is failing.
SCRUM is the reason that agile teams are
making a mess. SCRUM is the root cause
behind all the problems and disasters.
SCRUM is the cau...
, uncle-bobs-blatherings , agile-methods , clean-code
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2008-11-16 Arjan`s World
The fallacy of IRepository - Oren
Eini
Controlling authentication with the
WF 3.5 SendActivity - Jon Flanders
Book
Review: Essential WCF For .NET 3.5 - Jim
Holmes
‘ This book’s very well
written and does a great job of
explaining a lot of the features around
WCF. (…) ri...
, LINKBLOG
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2008-11-16 Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer
If you haven't already, go give this
post from Jim Shore a read.I've seen
a lot of commenters on this post so far,
and their thoughts generally mirror my
own. You can't take the "desserts"
of Agile practices like working
incrementally or the all important
adaptive planning...
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2008-11-16 Karl Martino
codeartisan: Jon Moore: Cracking down on
technical debt: Generally, as the folks
with the technical ability to recognize
it, it is the development team's
responsibility to try to avoid accruing
technical debt while producing product.
Failing that, it is their responsibility
to recogniz...
, dreamhost , agile , development , process , projectplanning , scrum
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2008-11-15 Exploration Through Example
One important point, in 1/30th the
actual keynote’s running time:
, agile
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Mike Cohn 0131479415
I learned a great deal about agile
processes and a way to plan release
"empirical" way. Good read.
$49.99 : Agile
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2008-11-15 Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland
Working Group Formed to Produce Reusable
Agile ContractsPosted by Vikas Hazrati
on Oct 29, 2008 04:45 AMContracts are
required to bridge the gap of trust and
uncertainty between different
organizations thus enabling them to work
together. Traditional ‘fixed price,
fixed scope and fix...
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2008-11-15 Alisson Vale
Hoje vive-se o dilema de encontrar o
limite adequado entre o craft e o lean.
Quanto do processo de software deve ser
"criao" e quanto deve ser "produo".
O quanto ele deve ter de "artesanal" ou
de "industrial". Hoje h dois extremos
em agile. E difcil saber onde se
posicionar ent...
, Projetos
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2008-11-14 enthiosys agile product management
What: “Agile Roadmapping”
– Scott Gilbert, President,
Enthiosys & Jeff Brantley (Director,
Product Mgmnt, Borland)
When: Friday,
November 14th, 2008 – 1PM EST /
10AM PST
Where: register for the webinar
here.
Roadmapping is a critical
planning process, and b...
, events , news-events
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2008-11-14 ntschutta.com
Today we learned something important,
the NTSB announced the results of their
investigation of the the 35W bridge
collapse. Turns out it was a design flaw
- some gusset plates weren’t quite
up to snuff. As a result of this
tragedy, bridges of similar design will
undergo much need...
, Agile , Development , Software
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2008-11-14 Richard Lawrence
As agile approaches the mainstream,
it’s easy to lose sight of some of
the core principles, especially this
one:
Build projects around motivated
individuals.
Give them the environment
and support they need,
and trust them to
get the job done.
If agile is to apply
broadly, we can&...
, Uncategorized , agile , motivation , Product , Scrum
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2008-11-14 Pathfinder Development
Image is a Pieceless Puzzle, from
Ceaco
Lately I've been working on a
revision of one of my first Pathfinder
projects, an internal agile management
tool. Along with adding and rearranging
some features, I'm also taking the
opportunity to modernize some of the
Rails 1.2 era code ...
, Agile , Ruby
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2008-11-14 ThE pM sTuDeNt
In my last article I shared some
background and differences between agile
and waterfall development methodology. I
would now like to share a few lessons
learned in managing a project that is
utilizing both methodologies
concurrently. As I come across more, I
will add a post.
Scheduling...
, methodology , agile , IT , software , waterfall
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2008-11-14 Devlicio.us
In my last post (here) I was giving a
wrap up ofthe Mocking session I
recently did at TriNug. In that post I
gave some of the reasons (sorry, I meant
excuses) people gave for not doing any
type of automated testing during their
dally development ritual (notice I am
staying away from ...
, Agile , Opinion , Rant , TDD
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