Author Archives: Haran Rasalingam

Shortening the Tail

This post is from jimhighsmith.com by Jim Highsmith. In Agile Project Management, I wrote a short section on a performance metric called “shortening the tail.” I liked using the metric, tail length, because it is easy to calculate and tells a … Continue reading

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Gamification – Making Work a Game

This post is from agilescout.com by Jane McGonigal’s. Gamification stands in contrast to what people call serious games. Serious games are activities or games that are outside of normal work. These games can help you with estimation (Planning Poker), road maps (Prune … Continue reading

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Untangling Adoption and Transformation

This post is from leadingagile.com by Mike Cottmeyer. A few weeks ago I agreed to help Brandon Carlson as a reviewer on his Adoption & Transformation stage. Last night I went through about 20 proposals and learned that I think about … Continue reading

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The curse of e-mail

E-mail is an amazing technology which has transformed our world.  But what is more amazing is how we manage to find ways to use it which are completely unhelpful. In an Agile environment, an e-mail can often be a very … Continue reading

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7 Key Principles of Lean Software Development

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. I haven’t blogged much about lean development. I’m not an expert on lean, but agile development is a great example of lean thinking in action. So I thought it might be interesting to … Continue reading

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Ways to split User stories

This post is from lassekoskela.com by Lasse Koskela I’m sitting in the hallway in Limerick, Ireland, attending the XP2008 conference, downloading something from the company server to my laptop, eavesdropping on an open space session hosted by J.B.. He’s talking about … Continue reading

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Agile Estimating in Scrum – Why Estimate Twice?

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. In my series of posts “How to Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps“, I refer to two stages of estimating: Step 2 is how to estimate your Product Backlog. Step 4 is estimating tasks in … Continue reading

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3 Ways to Minimize Handoffs

This post is from mountaingoatsoftware.com by Mike Cohn. Agile teamwork can really help to minimize handoffs. Teams using a sequential development process have become accustomed to handoffs between specialists. Analysts hand their work to designers, who hand it to programmers, who pass it … Continue reading

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Agile Software Development Estimating Experiment

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. I recently came across this agile estimating experiment by Lance Walton. The article is quite old now but I still found it very interesting… In recent years, I’ve had quite a fascination with the … Continue reading

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The Role of Leaders on a Self-Organizing Team

This post is from mountaingoatsoftware.com by Mike Cohn. Self-organization is a fundamental concept in agile project management. The Agile Manifesto includes the principle, “The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” Yet a common misconception about agile project management approaches … Continue reading

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