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Agile B000C2A2FE
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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
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
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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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
{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
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
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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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
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...
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...
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Craig Larman B000OZ0NM6
This work by Larman shares some commonalities with Balancing Agility and Discipline, a work by Boehm and Turner (see my review for that book) in which a wide range of methodologies are compared side-by-side to determine the best fit for teams. However, rather than serving as a guide to...
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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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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...
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...
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
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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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...
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
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 ...
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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
Mike Cohn 0321205685
This book provides excellent insight into the story driven process, with immediately actionable advice. Cohn clearly describes the advantages of stories, and explains how to develop quality systems that deliver value to the user. Anyone operating in, or hoping to adopt an iterative and...
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(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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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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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
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....
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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
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...
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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...
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
One important point, in 1/30th the actual keynote’s running time:
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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
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
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
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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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
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
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