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Do You Like Pain?

I have a co-worker who's never happy. Never. But today it's even worse. He just lost an hour or two of his work. He was writing code that deleted a large...

6 replies - 21058 views - 04/29/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Agile Estimating in Scrum - Why Estimate Twice?

In my series of posts "How to Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps", I refer to two stages of estimating:Step 2 is how to estimate your Product...

1 replies - 2817 views - 04/29/10 by Kelly Waters in News

Sizing, Scoping, and Distributed Teams on AgilePlatform

Mike Jones is the VP of worldwide marketing at OutSystems.  OutSystems has been working on Agile adoption projects for seven years - mainly in companies that...

0 replies - 1274 views - 04/28/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Better Code on a Budget and Training for Free

There are many ways to improve your code. Some are cheap, others expensive. There are tools, processes, conferences, and metrics. There are so many different...

2 replies - 8744 views - 04/28/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer – Book Review

Agile development expects mind shift and developers are not the only ones who must be agile. Every chain is as strong as it’s weakest link and same goes...

1 replies - 4326 views - 04/27/10 by Gunnar Peipman in News

Lean: Stop Drinking the Kool Aid!

Jeff Anderson wrote up his impressions from the extremely successful Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010. Jeff had a pretty good writeup and provides a...

1 replies - 2498 views - 04/27/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Vanilla Scrum and Multi-Team Value Streams

Okay... so what if my value stream isn't encapsulated within a single Scrum team? What do I do then? To some degree, I think it depends on how much of...

0 replies - 1717 views - 04/27/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

What Does It Mean to Be Agile?

Dr. Williams has been involved with studying and promoting Agile practices for many years. She's once again asking for the community to pitch in and let her...

0 replies - 1421 views - 04/26/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Code and Coffee: Save Yourself!

Code and Coffee is a simple idea. Once a week, get together in the morning, grab a shot of caffeine, and write some code. Pair with an old friend or a new...

3 replies - 8452 views - 04/26/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Moving to Test-Driven Development and Exploring Language Paradigms

Michael Feathers defines legacy code as "code without tests."  There's a major qualitative difference when working on code without tests. ...

0 replies - 6888 views - 04/26/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Will Vanilla Scrum Work for You?

In the midst of all the methodology wrangling... I've always felt that there is a time and a place for Vanilla Scrum. The problem is that most of the...

0 replies - 1249 views - 04/26/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

The Pitfalls of Agile Going Mainstream

Jared Richardson says that agile is going mainstream in many areas, but many companies have only made a partial agile transformation which Richardson calls...

0 replies - 2962 views - 04/22/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

OK, Let's Talk About Certification

Like many agile software development evangelists I am somewhat skeptical toward people taking pride in their certificates. In my experience, a certificate...

5 replies - 1683 views - 04/22/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

The Best Way to Keep Your Product Moving Forward

There are so many tools available today that claim to magically clean up your code....

0 replies - 7782 views - 04/22/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Hard Stop Iterations: No Where to Hide!

One of biggest problems with the traditional waterfall model is simply it's length. It's a lot more difficult to understand how things went off the tracks when...

4 replies - 5427 views - 04/21/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles