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Top ten tips for distributed scrum team teleconferences

Distributed software teams using scrum can spend a fair bit of time on the telephone. Even if you only talk for just sprint planning, daily stand-ups,...

0 replies - 2837 views - 01/10/11 by Jon Archer in News

Updates to the Agile Manifesto?

The Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org) is the rally cry of all software developers against the bureaucratic and wasteful, document-heavy and...

0 replies - 1311 views - 01/07/11 by Mark Lines in News

What to do after a servicing fails on TFS 2010

What do you do if you run a couple of hotfixes against your TFS 2010 server and you start to see seem odd behaviour? A customer of mine encountered that very...

1 replies - 3367 views - 01/05/11 by Martin Hinshelwood in News

Agile estimation and Planning – Presentation

Recently Mike Cohn presented the summary of his book Agile estimation and planning during Las Vegas Conference. The deck covers different types of...

0 replies - 2859 views - 01/05/11 by Venkatesh Kris... in News

That Huge Estimate May Be a Vote of No Confidence

I’ve seen it happen several times. The business requests an upfront, full-cost estimate for some feature or functionality. A business...

2 replies - 1665 views - 01/04/11 by Peter Schuh in News

Let's Play TDD #70: Reflections on Incremental Design

The source code for this episode is available here. Visit the Let's Play archive for more episodes!

0 replies - 929 views - 01/04/11 by James Shore in News

These are not the buzzwords you're looking for

Sometimes you come across expressons which are commonly used in the Agile community, but which lack a formal or straightforward definition.I have to say that...

2 replies - 7961 views - 01/04/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

You are a Leader

Leaders are chosenLeadership is neither assigned nor selected. People choose whom to follow and a leader thereby emerges. “The led must not be compelled,...

1 replies - 2109 views - 01/03/11 by Michael Norton in News

My, How the Times Are a Changin’

@mcottmeyer: Interesting Post… [Agile Guide] – Rotating Responsibility for Scrums and Retrospectives http://dlvr.it/CFN4q @davenicolette: “Take the...

1 replies - 695 views - 12/29/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Product Management an open secret, a differenciator

At the Skills Matter Agile Lean Kanban exchange the other week someone - sorry I missed you name - told me about a report from the BBC on Product...

1 replies - 821 views - 12/27/10 by Allan Kelly in News

Theory of Constraints: Blaming the bottleneck

I've been reading The Goal over the last week or so where Eliyahu Goldratt describes the theory of constraints as a philosophy for allowing organisations to...

1 replies - 2376 views - 12/27/10 by Mark Needham in News

Lost in Agile Translation

As ambassadors for organizational change, we routinely face obstacles ranging from the usage of scrum rhetoric by trainers to stubbornly persistent...

1 replies - 1426 views - 12/25/10 by David Bland in News

Happy Holidays! (and Free Book Chapter)

I will be enjoying a time-out with my friends during the holidays, while patiently waiting for the release of my book. (The official date is still...

0 replies - 1137 views - 12/23/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Stop the Insanity. Don’t Track Actuals.

Most project managers want to track actual effort and dollars toward the completion of their projects and deliverables. The goal is obvious and laudable....

3 replies - 1978 views - 12/23/10 by Peter Schuh in News

Are You Coding on Thin Ice?

Winter has arrived here in the US. Even here in the normally temperate North Carolina, it's been 5 to 10 degrees below freezing for the last several weeks....

0 replies - 1375 views - 12/22/10 by James Shore in News