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Agile Links

In case you didn’t know yet, I post plenty of interesting links to other people’s blog posts and magazine articles via the social network streams of...

0 replies - 930 views - 05/29/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

You Can’t Plan Away Uncertainty

  Hudson Bay Start (Source: Wikipedia) I’ve recently moved from Venice, Florida back to the West—to Lafayette, Colorado near Boulder to be...

0 replies - 928 views - 05/28/13 by Jim Highsmith in Articles

Pomodoros: Just Start the Timer

I wrote earlier in the year about my use of pomodoros to track what I’m doing outside of work and having done this for 6 months I noticed that I’m now...

0 replies - 1256 views - 05/28/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Technical Debt: In an Agile World

The phrase "agile development" has become common fare within the development community. As companies sought out new ways to innovate and optimize from within,...

0 replies - 3941 views - 05/26/13 by Zac Gery in Articles

Feedback: Reacting Immediately

I was recently reading an article written by Henry Winter where he mentioned some of the ideas that Sir ALex Ferguson has been covering in some interviews...

0 replies - 739 views - 05/25/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

7 Agile Best Practices that You Don’t Need to Follow

There are many good ideas and practices in Agile development, ideas and practices that definitely work: breaking projects into Small Releases to manage risk...

5 replies - 23259 views - 05/24/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

The Product Canvas Creation Workshop

The Product Canvas is a simple, yet powerful tool that helps you create a product with a great user experience and the right features. This post explains...

0 replies - 1421 views - 05/23/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles

Sprint Reviews in Practice

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance   - Hamlet Act 1,...

1 replies - 6124 views - 05/23/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

The Appreciation Gap

Authors note: A recent blog post on Bob Sutton’s Work Matters reminded me of this little piece I wrote a while ago. A simple thank you can make a...

0 replies - 3483 views - 05/23/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Cognitive Endurance Basics for Software Developers

A few weeks ago Michael published a post called Product Software Development Is a Marathon. The message of this post is: if you want to come up with a decent...

0 replies - 2043 views - 05/23/13 by Olga Kouzina in Articles

What Makes a Great Conference?

I’ve been asking around on email and on the social networks what makes a conference memorable, special, or amazing.  This topic has my special...

1 replies - 3523 views - 05/22/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

Devs in the Ditch

I gave a talk at Devs in the ‘Ditch last week when I was in London. I posted the slides on slideshare: Overcoming Three Pitfalls of Transitioning to...

0 replies - 1938 views - 05/22/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

11 Things to Remember About People in Middle Management Roles

It’s easy to be critical of managers.  A few things to remember. 0. Most people in management roles want to do a good job, but may not know what to do...

0 replies - 2511 views - 05/21/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

XPath 2.0

I learned about Xpath 5 years ago, but I've really only seen enterprise usage in just the past few weeks. Therefore, I wanted to write about Xpath 2.0 and...

0 replies - 950 views - 05/21/13 by Madhuka Udantha in Articles

Git - Simple File Management

Files can be added, committed and removed from git repositories using one or more of the following commands: Adding a file named "testFile.xml" to the...

0 replies - 5666 views - 05/21/13 by Matt Vickery in Articles