
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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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