All About Agile – Kelly Waters- Agile And The Learning Culture March 21, 2017Agile And The Learning Culture Corporate culture is one of those topics that gets written and talked about a good bit and with good reason. Implementing and maintaining an Agile culture and an Agile learning culture are both very challenging. Inside a learning culture employees have to be willing to keep up with what is […]Rynmelberg
- 5 Insights to Help HR Ride the Agile Wave March 14, 2017Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility Program In a recent scan of the e-literature on the reciprocal impact of Agile on HR, I connected some very interesting insights which I’d like to share. A set of insights that looks like ripples across the surface of a pond. Ripples that […]Frank Leong
- Summary of The Great ScrumMaster in 15 Tweets March 13, 2017The book The Great ScrumMaster by Zuzana Šochová provides lots of ideas to help Scrum masters deal with everyday situations. Here are 15 quotes from this book to tweet. More →Ben Linders
- Agile And The Learning Culture March 21, 2017
- Target Process
- Targetprocess v.3.11.3: User Stories will now follow their parent Feature May 18, 2017User stories will now follow their parent Feature Previously, if you moved a Feature to another Project, its User Stories did not follow the Feature to the new Project. This was fairly counter-intuitive. Starting with this release, if youNadia Bulynia
- Deprecating TestTrack integration May 17, 2017Did you know we have an integration with TestTrack? Probably not. It's a legacy plugin – a really old one – from Targetprocess 2 that connects to the TestTrack bug tracking tool and periodically synchronizes defects from TestTrackSergey Gnedin
- Visual Reports: Formulas Editor Change May 16, 2017Invalid formulas and old-style report formulas will not be saved We have disabled the ability to save invalid and previous version graphical report formulas . You can use special functions if you need to create reports using the formulas fromOleg Seriaga
- Service Desk updates: Color Themes and Request Type improvements May 16, 2017It's been awhile since we posted about our progress on Service Desk. We have just released several nice features that we'd like to share with you. Color themes You can now change the look of your Service DeskSergey Gnedin
- Visual Project Management: Past and Future May 9, 2017No matter what kind of project you’re managing, there’s a direct, causal relationship between process and outcome. In other words, it’s not just what you’re working on that matters but how you work on it. Traditionally, the projectAleks Peterson
- Open Allocation Experiment May 3, 2017In June 2016, we switched most of the people inside our company to open allocation. They have the freedom to start their own initiatives that are aligned with the central goal of providing a better user experience and fixingMichael Dubakov
- Targetprocess v.3.11.2: Undelete Projects and Users May 2, 2017Restore deleted projects or users You can now easily "undelete" Projects and Users from the "Deleted items" menu in Settings. Previously, it was not possible to restore deleted Projects and Users without using the API. Please find more info inNadia Bulynia
- Visual Report Improvements April 18, 2017Period scale for date axis Dates are now scaled as continuous axes by default. If you need to use periodic scales for dates, you can switch scale type from the field popup. Legend Legend filtering has been improved. Now, severalOleg Seriaga
- Targetprocess v.3.11.1: add/edit permissions separated, expand all in List views April 17, 2017'Expand All' in List views You can now expand and collapse all of the first and second List hierarchy levels. If you hold Ctrl (Cmd) and click '>' then cards from both levels will be expanded. This works for theNadia Bulynia
- Deprecating the old Help Desk portal April 11, 2017We released our Help Desk portal back in 2008. It was a great software that allowed external users to submit requests. Years passed, and it became more and more obsolete from both the technical and user perspectives. Rather thanSergey Gnedin
- Targetprocess v.3.11.3: User Stories will now follow their parent Feature May 18, 2017
Category Archives: Kanban
Kanban or Scrum? Know your constraints before you take the plunge
This post is from ambitiousmanager.com by Tom Sedge. Many people think that the answer to their problems is to pick an agile approach and use it to deliver their services. In doing this they frequently put the needs of service development … Continue reading
The Purpose of Measuring Cycle Times
I recently made the assumption that I did not need to explain why shorter cycle times were generally desirable. However, I was mistaken, so let me explain: If the average cycle time from starting to finishing a user story goes … Continue reading
Sinn der Messung Zykluszeiten
Wenn die durchschnittliche Zykluszeit von Start bis zum Ende einer User Story von 20 Tage auf 5 Tage reduziert wurde: Bedeutet dies, dass die Entwickler den Code 4 mal schneller schreiben? NEIN Bedeutet es, dass der Kunde 4 mal … Continue reading
WIP Limit Panic Sheet – what to do when you feel tempted to break the work-in-progress (WIP) limit
When a software development team starts using a work-in-progress (WIP) limit, everyone is calm and relaxed … until they are not. When you start to panic and feel the need to break the WIP limit rule – STOP! Read this … Continue reading
Beware of Scrumnesia – more transparency can make things seem worse than before!
I think this post is more about personal catharsis than anything else, but hopefully there is something useful here. I recently introduced a work-in-progress (WIP) limit with a Scrum team and was delighted that the average cycle time on user … Continue reading
Reducing cycle times: how to cheat properly
Reducing cycle times is a very good way to streamline processes within the software development life cycle. In order to reduce cycle times, there are some bad ways to cheat and some good ways to cheat: Bad ways to cheat: … Continue reading
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
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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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