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The Role of Leaders on a Self-Organizing Team

This post is from mountaingoatsoftware.com by Mike Cohn. My new eBook, Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility is out! We are at a tipping point. Technology—cloud, big data, mobility, social media—tops CEO’s list of concerns per a recent IBM study. “There has been no … Continue reading

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The Four Intrinsic Rewards that Drive Employee Engagement

This post is from iveybusinessjournal.com by Kenneth Thomas. Two of the major market forces in last decade with the greatest impact on Organisations has been the emergence of the ‘Digital Enterprise’ and ‘Organisational Agility’.  If used smartly, both can give significant … Continue reading

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Why is Agile so Hard to Sell?

This post is from leadingagile.com by Mike Cottmeyer. What I find incredibly interesting is why defining value is so hard. Agile proponents have been beating the value drum since the very beginning. Put the customer in the room… understand their needs… … Continue reading

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Patterns for Splitting User Stories

This post is from richardlawrence.info by Richard Lawrence Good user stories follow Bill Wake’s INVEST model. They’re Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable. The small requirement drives us to split large stories. But the stories after splitting still have to follow … Continue reading

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Agile Estimating: The Secret To Delivering On Time

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. For decades, delivering on time has been the holy grail of software development. I’ve been doing agile software development for quite a few years now. I’ve seen many benefits, but one of the … Continue reading

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To Estimate or Not To Estimate? That is the Question!

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. Lean software development shares many of the key principles of agile software development. Although one of the key aspects of lean development is all about identifying and eliminating waste from the development process… … Continue reading

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To Estimate or Not To Estimate? That is the Question!

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. Lean software development shares many of the key principles of agile software development. Although one of the key aspects of lean development is all about identifying and eliminating waste from the development process… … Continue reading

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Planning Poker – Agile Estimating

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. Planning Poker is an estimating technique used by many agile software development teams. Like many agile development techniques, Planning Poker is very simple. Simple, but effective. First of all, agile teams should ideally estimate … Continue reading

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Burndown User Stories, Rather Than Tasks

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. I was very interested to read this blog post from Ron Jeffries about burning down user stories rather than tasks. Excuse the pun, but this is a hot topic for me at the moment … Continue reading

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Estimating in Points Seems a Bit Stupid!

This post is from allaboutagile.com by Kelly Waters. A while ago I blogged about “What’s the Point in estimating?“. To be honest, I didn’t understand the concept of estimating in Points when we first adopted agile. Actually, I thought it sounded a … Continue reading

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