The Agile Manifesto is one of the most admired and ignored documents around. So many claim to be "Agile", then their actions tell us they are...
0 replies - 8179 views - 05/26/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
For IBM, Agile is about transparency. Marc Baumbach says that IBM is developing a standard called Collaborative Agile Lifecycle Management, which lets many...
0 replies - 748 views - 05/25/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
The business side of the house can be difficult at times. They can
challenge our estimates, claim that work is not half as difficult as we
make it out to...
1 replies - 2554 views - 05/25/10 by Peter Schuh in News
User stories are the substitute of formal requirements documents in an agile environment: they are short summaries of a functionality that leave space to...
1 replies - 9610 views - 05/25/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Tim Wingfield gave a talk last
weekend about the seven pillars of lean software development. I was
lucky enough to get a preview of the talk last week....
4 replies - 8555 views - 05/24/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
Cucumber is a Behavior-Driven Development tool that lets developers describe their software's behavior in plain text using a business-readable DSL...
1 replies - 8325 views - 05/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Managers and C-Level executives make a habit of beating up developers over their inability to provide accurate estimates. Now it's time to turn the tables, for...
0 replies - 2678 views - 05/21/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
There's a famous quote from the United States Supreme Court a few years ago. They were trying to determine what was art and what was pornography. Lawyers being...
4 replies - 11839 views - 05/20/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
Working on several agile teams, Patrick Boudreaux has learned many lessons, but the biggest take-away has been that there's no 'one right way' to do anything,...
0 replies - 1131 views - 05/19/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
I wanted to explore the possibility of using JBehave
to formalise scrums definition of done. The idea being to encapsulate a
definition of done as a...
2 replies - 6725 views - 05/19/10 by Martin Harris in News
This is a companion post to last year’s “I’m
a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) – so what?” post. In that post I
spoke about the advantage of using...
0 replies - 1545 views - 05/18/10 by Bob Hartman in News
Every so often someone writes an article talking about what great code,
or beautiful software, is (or insert some other superlative.) And,
surprise!...
10 replies - 16058 views - 05/17/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
Agilists intuitively get that it's a bad idea to build an inventory of
detailed specs way ahead of when they are going to get turned into
software. Why? ...
0 replies - 758 views - 05/17/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News
The agile crowd always bashes waterfall. It's silly. It's dumb. It's
guaranteed to fail. But waterfall is responsible for most of the
software available...
6 replies - 7072 views - 05/14/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
Alternate Title: A model for understanding Scrum and Kanban
As I flew home after LSSC10, I wondered how Kanban-style software
development would shape my...
1 replies - 4165 views - 05/14/10 by Michael Sahota in News
