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Story Points Considered Harmful? 1 of 4 - Journey's Start

A long while back, Vasco Duarte, with a little help from Joseph Pelrine started a discussion entitled “Story Points considered harmful.” They, or at least...

0 replies - 2337 views - 03/02/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

A Flaccid Scrum is a Missed Opportunity

Without the disciplined technical practices provided by XP, Scrum projects will always flounder.  A classic post from 2010. Martin Fowler wrote a...

0 replies - 2505 views - 03/01/13 by Steve Smith in Articles

Estimation and Fluency

Martin Fowler recently asked me via email if I thought there might be a relationship between Agile Fluency and how teams approach estimation. This is my...

0 replies - 1963 views - 03/01/13 by James Shore in Articles

Agile Networking Communities in Your Area

The best way to advance your agile journey is to get plugged in with others who are doing it. Here is a quick list of local and virtual communities,...

0 replies - 1305 views - 03/01/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

The Product Demo as an Agile Market Research Method

This post helps you use your product demos as an effective agile market research tool: to collect relevant feedback in order to validate your ideas and improve...

0 replies - 1736 views - 03/01/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles

The Purpose Of Estimation

My first encounter with agile software development was working with Kent Beck at the dawn of Extreme Programming. One of the things that impressed me about...

0 replies - 5505 views - 02/28/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles

Pomodoros and the To-Do List

Anna and I were recently discussing the way that we get things done outside of work and since December I’ve been fairly religiously working through various...

0 replies - 2819 views - 02/28/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Organizing an Agile Program: Part 1, Introduction

If you want to organize an agile program, so you can manage the stream of features in your agile program, you have some options. It depends on the size of your...

0 replies - 1747 views - 02/28/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

The Inadequacy of Feedback

Out of date. Removed by author. 

0 replies - 871 views - 02/28/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles

11 Agile Myths and 2 Truths

I deliver a lot of Agile training courses and I give a lot of talks about Agile (BCS Bristol tonight). There are some questions that come up again and again...

4 replies - 8043 views - 02/27/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

Agile Release Pattern: Merging Configuration

If you want to release your code frequently, you have to automate the release process. If your software interacts with shared components or other applications,...

0 replies - 1912 views - 02/27/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

What Drives Talent Out?

A few days back I saw the presentation from Netflix about its culture, and three interesting slides from it was about what drives talent out of a company....

1 replies - 1531 views - 02/27/13 by Asankha Perera in Articles

Where Is Agile Now?

It seems just yesterday I was trying to push forward the idea of developing software in an Agile way, but somehow now it seems like that battle is over. As...

0 replies - 3525 views - 02/26/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Agile Release Pattern: Feature-On/Off-Switch

If you want to release frequently, a problem you may encounter is that some features, even though functionally complete, don’t stand well on their own, but...

0 replies - 1620 views - 02/26/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

In An Organizational Change, Culture Comes Last

courtesy @opensourceway Here at LeadingAgile, we have a specific cycle for achieving organizational transformation. In short, to make real substantive...

0 replies - 1057 views - 02/26/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles