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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...

0 replies - 2763 views - 10/07/09 by Jack Milunsky 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. ...

3 replies - 6843 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 - 16715 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...

0 replies - 3795 views - 09/21/09 by Jack Milunsky 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 - 17354 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 - 9124 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...

0 replies - 4975 views - 09/08/09 by Jack Milunsky in Articles

User Stories - Tell it like it is

At every training session I do on Agile and Scrum, there two questions that are guaranteed to be asked without fail. What are user stories? and Why are...

0 replies - 1600 views - 08/26/09 by Jack Milunsky in Articles

Agile Adoption and Scaling Patterns

Over the past few months of writing Leading Agile... doing the Cutter Paper... and now preparing to write this book... we've talked a lot about different...

3 replies - 1580 views - 08/19/09 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Scaling Agile with Danube ScrumWorks 4

As the agile tools market continues to mature, more organizations are beginning to scale their development processes in ways that were previously not...

0 replies - 2154 views - 08/04/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

Atlassian Acquires GreenHopper for JIRA

Atlassian, a provider of software development and collaboration software, today announced the acquisition of GreenHopper for JIRA from GreenPepper...

0 replies - 1506 views - 06/02/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Reduce Your Software Developement Costs Now!

Are your software development costs breaking the bank? Click here for a solution! Adopting Agile methods in your projects is easier than you think. This DZone...

0 replies - 5234 views - 05/18/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements

The Curious Case of Software Quality

Most likely you have heard about the recent debate on technical blogosphere about the importance of software quality in software development cycle. There are...

0 replies - 3357 views - 02/16/09 by Keyvan Nayyeri in News

The Software Sales Pitch - Choosing Wisely

It's a common tale:  Some business need arises for capability your IT department doesn't currently offer but there are multiple commercial alternatives...

6 replies - 10035 views - 02/10/09 by Pete Johnson in Articles

The Decline and Fall of Agilists

There once was a time when being agile was being a visionary. Agile experts wrote books on how adaptive software...

0 replies - 3527 views - 02/06/09 by Jurgen Appelo in News