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Software is Like Pornography

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 - 11849 views - 05/20/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

No 'One Right Way' in Software Development

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 - 1133 views - 05/19/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Bad or Good? Behavior Driven Development within Scrum.

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 - 6734 views - 05/19/10 by Martin Harris in News

I’m a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) – so what?

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 - 1547 views - 05/18/10 by Bob Hartman in News

What Is Great Software?

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 - 16080 views - 05/17/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Subordinating the Scrum Team

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 - 759 views - 05/17/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Agile Versus Waterfall: Part One

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 - 7083 views - 05/14/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Scrum or Kanban? YES!

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 - 4169 views - 05/14/10 by Michael Sahota in News

Agile is Free! And Other Silly Ideas

Agile provides a great deal of freedom, and because of that it's often percieved as being, well, free. A manager I worked with told his leadership team than...

1 replies - 1950 views - 05/13/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

No Interruptions in Scrum is an Anti-pattern

Alternate title: Most Scrum teams need a Kanban board I am a big fan of Scrum, however, the notion that there are no interruptions during a sprint is simply...

0 replies - 2303 views - 05/13/10 by Michael Sahota in News

Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail?

If you're not keeping up... you've got some homework to do. My last post called "What Do I Mean by a Complex Product" is required reading before...

1 replies - 1543 views - 05/12/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

What Do I Mean by a Complex Product?

I've been rambling on for the past few years about agile in larger, more complex enterprises. Quite often in that discussion, I'll get asked to show a...

0 replies - 1677 views - 05/11/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Scrum is Suffocating Me!

From time to time I get email from people in various stages of Agile adoption, asking for advice or tips. Last week one sounded particularly desperate. With...

3 replies - 5349 views - 05/11/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Kanban Chalk-Talk

In this interactive whiteboard session, recorded at Oredev 2009, Scott Bellware introduces kanban and contrasts it with the common agile project management...

0 replies - 2279 views - 05/10/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Fast Build Times Integral to Continuous Integration

Eric Lefevre says CI can be fun to implement, but you can also get carried away.  Algodeal gave up their CI server in favor of running systematic tests on...

0 replies - 5202 views - 05/10/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos