Project Mgmt.

An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development...

3 replies - 1057 views - 11/20/09 by stephenrpalmer in Articles

An Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.  It is based on an estimation technique known as Wideband...

0 replies - 3498 views - 11/11/09 by AgileForAll in Articles

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Agile Coaching

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Agile Coaching' by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. This excerpt was...

3 replies - 683 views - 11/11/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Endeavour Software Project Management Beta 1.0 Released

Endeavour Software Project Management is an Open Source solution to manage the creation of large-scale enterprise systems in an iterative and incremental...

0 replies - 169 views - 10/26/09 by e-cuellar in Announcements

Top ALM Tools and Solutions Providers

A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM...

3 replies - 2850 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Measuring velocity is not enough to determine team productivity

An interesting question was brought up in a recent LinkedIn discussion thread: "Is velocity the right approach to measure productivity of team...

0 replies - 294 views - 10/16/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Epic Management Improvements in ScrumWorks 4.1

More improvements in large-scale agile software development are emerging today as Danube Technologies has released the 4.1 version of ScrumWorks Pro, the only...

1 replies - 914 views - 10/12/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Danube's Michael James on Scrum Adoption

Scrum is beginning to emerge as an increasingly popular choice for organizations seeking to improve software quality, decrease time-to-market, and stay...

0 replies - 5514 views - 10/08/09 by lyndsey in Videos

Burndown Charts - It's not about staying below the line

I recently participated in a Scrum development discussion thread on Yahoo Groups where one member new to Scrum asked the following: "Our burndown chart's...

0 replies - 440 views - 10/07/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Pair Programming - Dispelling the Conspiracy

Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. ...

2 replies - 3096 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Exclusive Interview: VP Sue McKinney on IBM's Agile Transformation

If there were ever any doubts about agile's ability to scale within large organizations, Sue McKinney might have some encouraging words of advice. The VP of...

0 replies - 5753 views - 09/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

The Kano Model - Measuring Agile Value

In all the Scrum literature, there is much rhetoric on focusing on delivering value but there is very little explanation on how you calculate it. Exactly how...

0 replies - 443 views - 09/21/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Exclusive Interview: IBM's Chief Agile Methodologist, Scott Ambler

In this interview, recorded at the recent Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile at IBM Rational, shares his findings...

0 replies - 8268 views - 09/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Holistic Agility: Thoughtworks Studios' Cyndi Mitchell

In this interview, recorded at the Agile 2009 Conference, Cyndi Mitchell, Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Studios, discusses the company's new Adaptive ALM...

0 replies - 3204 views - 09/10/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

"Stop Starting and Start Finishing" - A successful Lean philosophy

One of the killers on software development projects is Work-In-Progress. We have learned from the Lean experts, and from the teachings on the Toyota Production...

0 replies - 1072 views - 09/08/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles