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Cross-Functional Teams Don't Come Free

How should people be grouped together? Basically there are two main options to choose from: group people by similar function or by similar business. Grouping...

1 replies - 2735 views - 07/13/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Web applications as enterprise software

Usually I have no shame in using PHP for everything I do as a freelancer, because it's the language I and the people I work with know best. PHP however is a...

1 replies - 5249 views - 07/13/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Interview: Alan Shalloway on Lean Agile Software Development, Part One

Today I'm privileged to share with you the first portion of an interview that I conducted with Alan Shalloway (part two will run on Thursday). I first...

0 replies - 3683 views - 07/13/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

How To Succeed With Scrum When Your Company Is Anti-Agile

This post is inspired by a question on LinkedIn but I felt required a full blog post to really explain the answer. There are plenty of companies that still...

1 replies - 2558 views - 07/12/10 by Robert Diana in News

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

Editor's Note:  The following article, excerpted from Roman Pichler's book, "Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that...

0 replies - 6877 views - 07/12/10 by Roman Pichler in Articles

It's Effort, Not Complexity

A client asked me last week “When will my team be done with this project?” This is probably the bazillionth time I’ve been asked that question in one...

1 replies - 2894 views - 07/09/10 by Mike Cohn in News

Okay... Just What are we Transforming?

I'm constantly reminded that context is king... that words have meaning... and that the meaning of our words is almost entirely dependent on our...

0 replies - 730 views - 07/09/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

ScrumWorks Pro 4.4 Harnesses CollabNet Framework

Acquired by CollabNet in February, the developers from Danube have released the next version of their Scrum-based project management software.  Newly unveiled...

0 replies - 3912 views - 07/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

How to be a worse programmer

Lots of tips collections come up on DZone about how to become a better programmer. But no one ever told us how to become a worse one. What would make our...

13 replies - 55711 views - 07/08/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Show (Don't Tell), Persuade (Don't Preach)

Welcome back to another episode of The Agile Guerilla series. The focus of this series of articles is to to help you introduce change, specifically moving to...

0 replies - 4770 views - 07/07/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Video: Agile Testing and SeleNesse

Tools like FitNesse allows test automation to happen quickly and broadly.  However, many companies can't support it in their infrastructure.  Dawn Cannan got...

0 replies - 9108 views - 07/07/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Our Divisive Scrum Terminology Needs to be Deprecated

I’ve finally come to the realization that the terminology is divisive and needs to be deprecated. Take the chicken & pig story used in many...

2 replies - 1676 views - 07/07/10 by David Bland in News

But the ScrumMaster said I had to!

Today's article will be a short one, but I think it raises a very important point. A wide range of software development methodologies exist, some of them more...

0 replies - 3075 views - 07/06/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Software engineering in the rail system

During my trip to Corropoli for the phpDay 2010 I took six trains to cover a total of 1000 kilometers. During the waiting periods in the train stations, I got...

0 replies - 6935 views - 07/06/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Video: The Pair Programming Show

 Did you try pair programming but it didn't work? Are you wondering if it's worth it? Then, this play is for you.In this live play, recorded at Øredev...

0 replies - 8421 views - 07/02/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos