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Agile Architecture Requires Modularity

A few weeks ago, I presented my view of agile architecture, and followed that up with a post on DZone that presented two aspects of agile architecture. A...

1 replies - 628 views - 06/24/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life

The authors state their target audience well: Anyone wanting out of the rat race. Anyone who wants to stand up, look around, and see if this road is somewhere they want to go. Anybody who imagines...

0 replies - 1072 views - 06/17/09 by Matt Stine in Book Reviews

Test Infecting Your Team

Recently, a simple question was posed to the Yahoo Test Driven Development (TDD) group. I've seen situations where the person on a team you would single out to...

12 replies - 2736 views - 06/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

The Scrum of Scrums

It is sometimes said that agile software development methods, such as Scrum, are ideal for small projects being delivered by small teams.Personally I would...

0 replies - 209 views - 06/11/09 by Kelly Waters in News

Tough times out there - Scrum can show you the way out!

"In these tough economic times" I've heard this so many times it's starting to annoy me. Yet, this little proverb is sublimely relevant; it taps into...

0 replies - 346 views - 06/10/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Defining Kanban

There has been a long thread in the kanbandev group at Yahoo about how to define what a kanban system is, and is not. Defining kanban is important because...

4 replies - 2170 views - 06/09/09 by Henrik.Martensson in News

Three Levels of Control (Example)

In my last post I told you about the three levels of control for managers. I didn't have much time to go into details then, and it was no surprise to see...

0 replies - 134 views - 06/08/09 by jurgenappelo in News

The Product Owner - Top 10 Responsibilities

Over the course of the past 5 years, I have often been asked about the role the Product Owner plays in an Agile company. More recently in a rather...

0 replies - 891 views - 06/05/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

To Estimate or Not - That Is the Question

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...

0 replies - 445 views - 06/03/09 by Kelly Waters in News

Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise (3): Responsibility-Owning the Vision

Note: this is the third in a series of posts on the changing role of product management as the enterprise transitions to agile development methods. This series...

0 replies - 266 views - 06/01/09 by deanleffingwell... in News

Recommended Books on Agile

Quite frequently I am out talking to traditional project managers or new agile teams that want to learn a little bit more about all this agile stuff....

2 replies - 459 views - 05/29/09 by mcottmeyer in News

Self-Organization (Part 3)

In part 1 and part 2 of this multi-post article I told you that self-organization does not distinguish between valuable and harmful results. This distinction...

1 replies - 731 views - 05/27/09 by jurgenappelo in News

Introducing Kanban, Flow, and Cadence

There has been some noticeable increase in interest in Kanban recently, with a number of people asking for more basic info, and more people writing new blogs...

4 replies - 3842 views - 05/26/09 by kjscotland in News

Why have a Product Owner anyway?

I can’t stress enough just how important the role of the Product Owner really is. This job is not for the faint-of-heart. In fact, the Product Owner is...

0 replies - 236 views - 05/25/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Self-Organization (Part 2)

In part 1 of this multi-post article I explained that self-organization has built the universe and everything in it, from quarks to strawberries to humans, and...

1 replies - 239 views - 05/21/09 by jurgenappelo in News