I normally write about a new agile project management technique only after I’ve used it for a couple of years and found it successful in a couple of...
0 replies - 2418 views - 03/14/13 by Mike Cohn in Articles
I've written about Conway's Law before (Return to Conway’s Law (2006) and a Focus Group I ran at EuroPLoP “What do we think of Conway’s Law Now?”)...
2 replies - 5761 views - 03/14/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles
For a shared identity
to work, it is useful to know who is, and who is not, part of the
group. This is sometimes quite clear, but quite often it isn’t....
0 replies - 2253 views - 03/14/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
Starting the start of the industrial revolution in 18th century, there has been a trend of increasing specialization. Rather than workers being involved in...
0 replies - 2327 views - 03/13/13 by Mike Cohn in Articles
In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more articles of this kind printed in the major...
3 replies - 2653 views - 03/13/13 by Christian Grobmeier in Articles
Far too often I hear managers say, “Just get it out the door.” I understand the perspective. We work in a world of constraints and the business needs to...
0 replies - 1736 views - 03/13/13 by David Bernstein in Articles
Agile at the Enterprise Level is not about the two-week inspect and adapt cycle… it’s about small batches and flow.
You may have noticed that...
0 replies - 1562 views - 03/13/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles
I always hear the advice that we should tackle hard problems first.
It seems like pretty legitimate advice, and many of the reasons for saying so make sense,...
10 replies - 4308 views - 03/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
Release testing is a flawed strategy that discourages product quality
In many organisations, an agile product team will contain co-located developers and...
0 replies - 2836 views - 03/12/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
Lior Friedman asked whether a tester should know how to program or become obsolete. Lanette Creamer said the same fate awaits programmers who can’t test....
0 replies - 1827 views - 03/12/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
I live and work with two phrases in my head that are important to me:
“It’s the system, not the people” – Deming
And,...
0 replies - 2046 views - 03/11/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn quotes Jim Highsmith on why Agile projects are better:
“One of the things I keep telling people is that agile...
0 replies - 2748 views - 03/11/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
In a nice tie-in to my previous assertion that the root cause of Flaccid Scrums is a lack of XP-like focus upon technical quality, Allan Kelly has written two...
0 replies - 1745 views - 03/11/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
All new features at eBay Europe are developed using SCRUM. One key success factor for those projects is to have a reliable end-to-end test automation safety...
0 replies - 2212 views - 03/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
An introduction to the Swift-Kanban tool and the Kanban technique in under 20 minutes.
0 replies - 853 views - 03/10/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
