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Product Backlogs in Practice

A few days back I came across Yuriy Zubarev's Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary. There are some nice, cutting observations in there, but the one...

0 replies - 4652 views - 05/09/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

When I Feel Empowered, I Can….

 In one of my AYE sessions, we started by completing a sentence: Read this aloud. Feel it. Is this the way you’d like to work?

0 replies - 921 views - 05/09/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

7 Steps for Writing Your First Test

Here are the slides from my Sela Developer Practices 2013 talk:   PS: If you were not one of the thousands in attendance, I’m doing it as a Typemock...

0 replies - 3008 views - 05/09/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles

Large Scale Program and Portfolio Management with Scrum

Hey everyone… I’m out in Vegas this week at the Scrum Gathering. Got invited to speak… which was really cool (thanks Daniel Gullo)… and did the most...

0 replies - 1067 views - 05/09/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 5

I am still making progress, although it’s more difficult to see my progress today. Why? Because I did not get as much to done. One of my readers asked a...

0 replies - 2340 views - 05/09/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Organizational Transformation Checklist

In this post I am sharing workshop results on how to understand the readiness of the leadership to undertake organizational transformation such as the...

1 replies - 1619 views - 05/09/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles

Git Going with Distributed Source Control

Introduction to Git from Øredev Conference on Vimeo. Many development shops have made the leap from RCS, Perforce, ClearCase, PVCS, CVS, BitKeeper or...

0 replies - 2669 views - 05/08/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Dialogue Sheets - Update & New Planning Sheet

Last month InfoQ carried an update on the use of retrospective dialogue sheets. The use of these sheets continues to grow and I continue to receive good...

0 replies - 3128 views - 05/08/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

Perfect Workflow in Sublime Text 2

I previously wrote about my Sublime Text setup. Well, Tuts+ has published a quite nice Sublime Text tutorial showing most of Sublime’s features. Regardless...

0 replies - 4876 views - 05/07/13 by Juri Strumpflohner in Articles

How to Build a Culture Bubble

The post is about how one can create a bubble of a new culture inside of an existing organization. For example, this may be used by a group interested in...

0 replies - 1282 views - 05/06/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles

Q: Why Silence? A: Priming.

I'm a big fan of using silent brainstorming in order to generate ideas as individuals before processing those ideas as a group. "Priming" is yet another reason...

0 replies - 744 views - 05/06/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles

Story Tests

Story tests are BusinessFacingTests used to describe and verify the software delivered as part of a UserStory. When a story is elaborated the team...

0 replies - 4443 views - 05/06/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles

Ring the Bell!

A few years ago I discussed some organizational challenges with my former CEO, and I noted the employees in our company rarely took time to enjoy their...

0 replies - 988 views - 05/05/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

5 Big Scrum Questions – Issue 4

This is the final issue of James Brett‘s 5 Questions. Issue 1 featured Ron Jefferies, Issue 2 featured Ken Schwaber, and Issue 3 featured...

0 replies - 3871 views - 05/05/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

Joy Spring and Estimated Deadlines

I remember how eager I was earlier this year to hear what Phil, the prophetic groundhog, would predict about when spring would come.  It doesn't come...

0 replies - 1890 views - 05/05/13 by Olga Kouzina in Articles