Agile

Coping with change on Scrum projects (part I)

Most folks don't like change. I know I don't. But one things certain, adopting an Agile approach to software development requires much change in an...

0 replies - 103 views - 11/04/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Mingle 3.0 and Google Wave Join Forces

ThoughtWorks Studios' Adaptive ALM software unveils major updates today at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.

0 replies - 858 views - 11/04/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...

0 replies - 2445 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Process Not Working -- Must Have More Process

After all, programmers are all lazy and stupid.Got his complaint recently."Developers on a fairly routine basis check in code into the wrong...

1 replies - 661 views - 10/28/09 by slott in News

Endeavour Software Project Management Beta 1.0 Released

Endeavour Software Project Management is an Open Source solution to manage the creation of large-scale enterprise systems in an iterative and incremental...

0 replies - 90 views - 10/26/09 by e-cuellar in Announcements

Exclusive Interview: Agile Alliance Managing Director, Phil Brock

While many industry conferences are contracting in size and even cancelling their shows, the Agile Alliance is worried about a different kind of problem: how...

0 replies - 679 views - 10/23/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Breaking into Agile

I had a recent conversation with some folks who were desperate to "processize" everything. They were asking about Scrum Master certification and what...

0 replies - 439 views - 10/22/09 by slott in News

Top ALM Tools and Solutions Providers

A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM...

3 replies - 2449 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

An Agile Team in Flux

In late 2008, ThoughtWorks was called in to remove legacy systems and initiate an Agile cultural shift for a large international communications firm. ...

0 replies - 1026 views - 10/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Measuring velocity is not enough to determine team productivity

An interesting question was brought up in a recent LinkedIn discussion thread: "Is velocity the right approach to measure productivity of team...

0 replies - 234 views - 10/16/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

"Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease"

The above quote was tossed off by Billy Hollis at the patterns&practices Summit this week in Redmond.

0 replies - 611 views - 10/16/09 by Ted Neward in News

Epic Management Improvements in ScrumWorks 4.1

More improvements in large-scale agile software development are emerging today as Danube Technologies has released the 4.1 version of ScrumWorks Pro, the only...

1 replies - 771 views - 10/12/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Danube's Michael James on Scrum Adoption

Scrum is beginning to emerge as an increasingly popular choice for organizations seeking to improve software quality, decrease time-to-market, and stay...

0 replies - 4511 views - 10/08/09 by lyndsey in Videos

Burndown Charts - It's not about staying below the line

I recently participated in a Scrum development discussion thread on Yahoo Groups where one member new to Scrum asked the following: "Our burndown chart's...

0 replies - 362 views - 10/07/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

The Problem With Planning

I think I've been pretty successful in my career. But if I was better at planning, I wouldn't have achieved half the things I've achieved in my career! In...

0 replies - 275 views - 10/06/09 by Kelly Waters in Articles