Category Archives: Agile

DeploymentPipeline

This post is from martinfowler.com by Martin Fowler. One of the challenges of an automated build and test environment is you want your build to be fast, so that you can get fast feedback, but comprehensive tests take a long time … Continue reading

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What Does the Agile Manifesto Mean?

This post is from scrumalliance.org by Scott Ocamb. As we all know, the Angile Manifesto was authored at a ski lodge in Utah in 2001. These important guidelines and principles drive much of what we do. These simple, elegant words are very … Continue reading

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Sprint Zero: A Good Idea or Not?

This post is from mountaingoatsoftware.com by Mike Cohn. In my previous post, I wrote about alternatives to numbering sprints. In this post I want to deal with a very special number that some teams use in numbering their sprints–zero. The concept of a … Continue reading

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Tactics, Strategy, & Culture – A Model for Thinking about Organizational Change

This post is from  agilitrix.com by Michael Sahota. The following diagram is a powerful mental frame to help understand change efforts within organizations. It makes the discernment between tactical, strategic and cultural levels. One way to use the diagram is to … Continue reading

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Velocity – It Could Have Your Eye Out

This post is from mumbly.co.uk by Mark Stringer. I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Imagine there was this tool that everybody said was fantastic – let’s say it was a wood chisel, let’s call it the Wonder Chisel. And … Continue reading

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Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds

This post is from blog.crisp.se by Henrik Kniberg. Dealing with multiple teams in a product development organization is always a challenge! One of the most impressive examples I’ve seen so far is Spotify. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Spotify … Continue reading

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How to Use Gamification for an Agile Transformation

This post is from techwell.com by Sameh Zeid. In a recent LinkedIn poll, the failure to change organizational culture was voted as the prime cause of preventing an agile transformation. This brings to my mind Jurgen Appelo who wrote in his book How … Continue reading

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Agile roadmapping

This post is from ambitiousmanager.com by Liz Rice  Every so often, I hear someone suggest that you can’t really build a roadmap when you’re working in Agile, because you’re only planning one iteration at a time. That, my friends, is nonsense. In … Continue reading

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Seven Things I Hate About Agile

This post is from blog.assembla.com by Andy Singleton. Last week Assembla posted a bunch of “agile” words on our home page.  I resisted doing this for years, because the word “agile” doesn’t necessarily have a good feel to it.  It’s a … Continue reading

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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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