Category Archives: Agile

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

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Software and tech debt, cooking and washing up

This post does not need to be long.  If I can make a spaghetti carbonara in half an hour, it would be a mistake to think that I could make another and another and another each in half an hour … Continue reading

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Keynote 2 October 9th 2013 | Agile Business Conference 2013 – Agile Across the Board

This post is from agileconference.org by Manav Mehan and Jonathan Elliott. 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 … Continue reading

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Writing “As a User” does not make it a user story

This post is from gojko.net by Gojko Adzik. I got a question from one of the blog readers on how I would describe a spec with examples for a user-interface specific user story, such as “As a user, I want to … Continue reading

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Starting agile adoption | LeanAgileTraining

Imagine that you have gotten some interest in Agile. Perhaps you read a book, and talked with a friend who is doing it at his firm.

And then you take a Scrum course.

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Stop Writing Code You Can’t Yet Test

This post is from leadingagile.com by Dennis Stevens. Most of the organizations we engage with have more work to do than they can possibly get done. So, developers are writing code as fast as they can to get done trying to … Continue reading

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Agile vs. Waterfall

This post is from leadingagile.com by Dennis Stevens. Agile versus Waterfall These words have become completely overloaded when discussing product development. Lots of conversations about helping organizations improve their product development processes go sideways based on individual perspectives about the meaning … Continue reading

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Non-Violent Communication for Agile Teams

This post is from targetprocess.com by M. Rosenberg. As the heading suggests, today I’d like to take a brief look at the concept of non-violent communication. Communication means really a lot for software development teams. If something goes wrong, there are misunderstandings, … Continue reading

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unSAFe at any speed

This post is from kenschwaber.wordpress.com by Ken Schwaber. The boys from RUP (Rational Unified Process) are back. Building on the profound failure of RUP, they are now pushing the Scaled Agile Framework (e) as a simple, one-size fits all approach to … Continue reading

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Why Project Focused Mentality is Killing Software Development

This post is from www.agile-doctor.com by Larry Apke. So, the other day I was listening to NPR in the car (like most people when they listen to talk radio). And the talk was about peace in the Middle East. One of … Continue reading

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