Author Archives: Haran Rasalingam

Reducing Cycle Time

This post is from jimhighsmith.com by Jim Highsmith. An increasing number of organizations are moving towards radical reductions in cycle time as they move towards rapid business responsiveness and Continuous Delivery. (I’m trying to reduce my personal cycle time, but that’s another … Continue reading

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Build Less, Start Sooner

This post is from jimhighsmith.com by Jim Highsmith. Jeff Patton recently reminded me of two simple strategies for software development that I’ve talked about from time to time—Build Less Software and Start Sooner. I thought I’d follow up on Jeff’s blog and … Continue reading

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Gamification in Software Development and Agile

This post is from agileforest.com by Renee Troughton. When people think of the term ‘gamer’ it engenders ideas of pasty white teenagers living their days in a zombie like state in the basement of their parents house spending over forty hours … Continue reading

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Street Fighter Game – Built using Agile and Scrum

This post is from agilescout.com This may be a very revealing post for me… because my favorite video game of all time is Street Fighter IV. I absolutely love zombies (agile zombies?) and Street Fighter. In an interview with 1UP, … Continue reading

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Velocity is Killing Agility!

This post is from jimhighsmith.com by Jim Highsmith. As I talk with companies around the world it’s clear that a significant number of them are still mired in the productivity, efficiency, and optimization mud. It’s easy to spot them because they are … Continue reading

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World record for the longest daily stand-up

This is a very quick post to report that today I learned of a daily stand-up which lasted 4 hours!  I am not sure how this is possible, but I would really like to know if the team really were … Continue reading

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Scrum: is the daily stand-up flawed?

It occurred to me today after witnessing a particularly poorly-focused stand-up that there could be a flaw in the way that the structure and format is set up. Sure, we say that each member should update the rest of the … Continue reading

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The Real Reason We Estimate

This post is from leadingagile.com by Mike Cottmeyer. Over the past few months, various blog posts have popped up talking about estimation, how estimation is unnecessary, how estimation is waste… and that maybe we should stop estimating entirely and just get down … Continue reading

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An introduction to scary points

One of the fundamental aspects of Scrum is to organise work into user stories to which the team collectively assigns complexity points.  From this, the team’s sprint velocity can be determined and this in turn aids the ability to estimate … Continue reading

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Monsters Built Using Kanban

This post is from agilescout.com by Stephanie Kaiser. I am not a big Facebook fan (although Zuckerberg is very Agile). Nor am I a big online gaming fan (though Warcraft seems like tons of fun). What I am interested in are … Continue reading

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