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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 - 731 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 - 3920 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 - 55739 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 - 4778 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 - 9117 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 - 1682 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 - 3080 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 - 6943 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 - 8440 views - 07/02/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

How to improve a team's velocity

By way of wrapping up my velocity mini-series (Two ways to fill and iteration, Filling an iteration too well, and Velocity Targeting and Velocity...

1 replies - 3894 views - 07/02/10 by Allan Kelly in News

The Agile Guerilla

While it certainly seems that agile software development has gone mainstream, I still encounter a number of software developers who work in one of two...

0 replies - 6459 views - 07/01/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Video: The Unique Development Processes of Relevance

Relevance does agile consulting with their own unique process which mixes and matches many agile methodologies.  Their standard workflow involves 2-week...

0 replies - 4352 views - 07/01/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Product Backlog: Small Steps vs. Giant Leaps

When reading this Kill Your To-Do List blog post, I thought that managing personal to-do list can be similar to product backlog management. Not in the...

1 replies - 1734 views - 07/01/10 by Olga Kouzina in News

Functional Managers Acting as Scrum Masters: Not a Good Idea

I often meet people who are transitioning to agile, and they decided to pick Scrum, because it’s a helpful project management framework. Ok, that makes...

4 replies - 2972 views - 06/30/10 by Johanna Rothman in News

Go Faster with Root Cause Analysis

One of the workshops I run is to help team members understand root cause analysis. I use it with operations teams as well as product development teams. My...

2 replies - 3784 views - 06/29/10 by Michael Sahota in News