Planning Poker (AKA the Grenning game) is a relatively popular agile tool for making estimates on a project. Each team member is handed the same set of...
0 replies - 7424 views - 03/09/12 by Tony Siciliani in Articles
Its time to admit that sometimes it’s okay to incur technical debt,
particularly when it comes to getting it done. So many times, I’ve run
into to...
7 replies - 6208 views - 02/19/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles
The idea behind the technical debt metaphor
is that there is a cost to taking short cuts (intentional technical
debt) or making mistakes (unintentional...
2 replies - 10780 views - 02/15/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
I’m hosting this edition of Jon Hunter’s Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival.
It’s been published three times a month since 2006. Here’s my...
0 replies - 1569 views - 02/10/12 by Benjamin Mitchell in Articles
I’m going to tell you a story about how I almost failed as a
manager. I say almost because it was only because of Bob Smith that I
recovered and really...
0 replies - 1549 views - 02/07/12 by Steve Ciske in Articles
I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams
for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite large programs,
some of them...
1 replies - 1280 views - 01/27/12 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
Earlier this month I attended the monthly meeting of the Seattle PHP Meetup Group.
In ways I didn’t expect, it was a very interesting meeting. The...
3 replies - 15890 views - 01/13/12 by Brian Swan in News
Everyone knows from reading The Mythical Man Month that as you add more people to a software development project you will see diminishing marginal...
1 replies - 5774 views - 12/14/11 by Jim Bird in Articles
There is more and more writing on Devops lately, which is good and bad. There still remains a small core of thoughtful people
that are worth listening to and...
1 replies - 2637 views - 11/24/11 by Jim Bird in Articles
Three years ago Tony Morris asserted that Agile is a non-idea, an unfalsifiable pseudo-science. To illustrate his claims he drew an analogy between Agile and...
0 replies - 2328 views - 11/22/11 by David Pell in Articles
Writing contracts is a key topic for the sales team getting involved
in Agile projects. In the projects applying traditional methodology,
companies had...
0 replies - 2233 views - 11/14/11 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles
You’ve most probably been there: To win that one ueber-important
client, your friendly sales rep sells the farm and his grandmother (well
actually he...
2 replies - 4026 views - 09/22/11 by Matthias Marschall in News
“A talented employee may join a company because of
its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world class
training programs, but how long...
1 replies - 6425 views - 09/10/11 by Esther Derby in News
Dear Reader,
We are really, REALLY pleased to announce that the third Day Camp 4 Developers has now been announced and tickets are now on sale. This time...
0 replies - 8031 views - 08/16/11 by Cal Evans in News
Today was a great day. I helped import our entire “roadmap” of
functional requirements from an Excel spreadsheet into Pivotal Tracker.
Even though we...
3 replies - 4751 views - 07/21/11 by Daniel Ackerson in News
