
A major update to the Kanbanery project board and collaboration tool has arrived today. Lunar Logic Polska says their tool is the first online Scrum and...
2 replies - 2757 views - 10/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

I recently reflected on my daily breakfast, and
noticed that I didn’t really enjoy it. Swallowing two slices of bread,
and one glass of juice, was just...
1 replies - 993 views - 10/05/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Today I'm kicking off a new emphasis here at Agile Zone on software project automation. The astute reader will recognize the double reference to R.E.M.'s 1992...
2 replies - 10294 views - 10/04/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

The fourth annual Houston TechFest will be held on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at University of Houston's Main Campus. This free event is one of the largest of...
0 replies - 11590 views - 10/01/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements

I’ve been working with several clients on their transition to agile.
Yes, the technical staff needs training. Yes, they often need coaching
on how to...
0 replies - 762 views - 10/01/10 by Johanna Rothman in News

Yesterday’s post Why Spend a Whole Morning on Technical Debt? listed eight characteristics of the technical debt metric that will be discussed during the...
0 replies - 1327 views - 09/30/10 by Israel Gat in News

How many developers think they're good programmers? We're not. We're all fairly bad at what we do. We can't remember all the methods our code needs to call, so...
32 replies - 64124 views - 09/29/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

How is Agile development like running a deli? Kayaking? Street fighting?
(Not so much.) These questions answered in this fun little video
recorded by the...
0 replies - 858 views - 09/29/10 by James Shore in News

Developers typically have one or more indispensable books that they have always kept close at hand when diving deep into the coding realm. But which ones are...
0 replies - 14553 views - 09/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

It’s not uncommon for me to visit a new client and to discover that
the teams change frequently, sometimes after every single sprint.
Changing the team...
1 replies - 1617 views - 09/27/10 by Roman Pichler in News

I’ve been working with several clients on their transition to agile.
Yes, the technical staff needs training. Yes, they often need coaching
on how to...
1 replies - 1074 views - 09/27/10 by Johanna Rothman in News

In my years in the software industry I’ve found that there are two
types of people: process oriented people and result oriented people. The
former...
1 replies - 3512 views - 09/24/10 by Wille Faler in News

I'm giving a talk these days on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour entitled "Yes You Kanban." Toward the end of that talk I do a brief compare and contrast...
0 replies - 4095 views - 09/23/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

The dire consequences of the pressure to quickly deliver more functions
and features to the market have been described in detail in various
posts in this...
0 replies - 3839 views - 09/23/10 by Israel Gat in News

I remember a topic my childhood pastor would revisit from time to time: "gift projection". Without going deep into the subject, it's the tendency of...
0 replies - 11768 views - 09/22/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles