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DZone's Top 10 Agile and Lean Development Books

Developers typically have one or more indispensable books that they have always kept close at hand when diving deep into the coding realm.  But which ones are...

0 replies - 14553 views - 09/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Zombie (Stakeholder) Management Strategy

Today we’re going to learn a little about zombie stakeholders. Now, I know you’re a little apprehensive.  You don’t believe in zombies.  You believe...

1 replies - 1443 views - 09/24/10 by Derek Huether in News

Exclusive Interview: Mary Poppendieck on Lean Transformations

DZone recently caught up with Mary Poppendieck, agile thought leader and author of the award-winning book "Lean Software Developmet: An Agile...

0 replies - 7228 views - 09/20/10 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Architecture and Programs: Incremental Progress Not Big Bang

I’ve been working on agile program management and a colleague emailed me about his program. He’s having trouble seeing how to do agile on a large...

1 replies - 1248 views - 09/15/10 by Johanna Rothman in News

Lean: Avoiding Waste in Software Development

“Lean” and “waste” are now two of the most fashionable buzzwords in software development, but what do they mean? How can we...

1 replies - 10443 views - 09/07/10 by Alberto Gutierrez in Articles

Navigating the Five Levels of Conflict - The Agile Way

Working together day after day is an intense human experience, with all the glories and warts that emerge from constant interaction...

1 replies - 14725 views - 08/18/10 by Lyssa Adkins in Articles

The End of Management & Process

Job adverts often pay lip service to terms such as “must be proactive”, or “self motivated” and various other platitudes. Yet...

1 replies - 1613 views - 08/01/10 by Wille Faler in News

Ten Principles for Agile Testers

Everyone on an agile team is a tester. Anyone can pick up testing tasks. If that’s true, then what is special about an agile tester? If I define myself as...

0 replies - 9951 views - 07/26/10 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Schedule Chicken Is an Iterative Disaster

Ostensibly originating in Rebel Without a Cause the game of chicken entails a test of courage between two or more individuals. Each participant is seated...

0 replies - 941 views - 07/22/10 by Peter Schuh in News

An Iteration Zero for Project Recovery: Starting Again Without Starting Over

In my post a few weeks back on How to Start the Next Recovery Project I asserted that I will take the following four steps the next time I take on a...

0 replies - 1228 views - 07/21/10 by Peter Schuh in News

Managing Risk on Agile Projects with the Risk Burndown Chart

Risk management is a central part of traditional project management and is included as one of the knowledge areas in the Project Management Institute’s...

0 replies - 4356 views - 07/19/10 by Mike Cohn in News

Waterfall vs. Agile: QA and Management

We saw in the previous articles the main differences between agile and waterfall. In this last article we are going to take a deeper look focusing on Quality...

1 replies - 23990 views - 07/19/10 by Alberto Gutierrez in Articles

Mingle Meets JIRA and Mercurial

A boatload of extensions have docked at Mingle's port.  Today, ThoughtWorks Studio's agile project management platform is getting an integration overhaul that...

0 replies - 6960 views - 07/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

Editor's Note:  The following article, excerpted from Roman Pichler's book, "Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that...

0 replies - 6861 views - 07/12/10 by Roman Pichler in Articles

It's Effort, Not Complexity

A client asked me last week “When will my team be done with this project?” This is probably the bazillionth time I’ve been asked that question in one...

1 replies - 2893 views - 07/09/10 by Mike Cohn in News