I want to tell you about a meeting we had a few days ago. It reminded me of “The Jack Story” (which was part of an old stage routine of Danny Thomas many...
0 replies - 744 views - 05/15/13 by Nadav Azaria in Articles
In the worst places where you want to work, business people such as internal software customers or sales people are an adversary to the development team. In...
0 replies - 2195 views - 04/22/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Scrum has simple rules about team composition. There is the Development Team plus exactly one Scrum Master and exactly one Product Owner. Due to potential...
0 replies - 1469 views - 04/10/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
Feature-itis. It’s an agile Product Owner game. It’s when the Product
Owner says, in his or her best George Carlin voice, “Gimme Features. I
don’t...
1 replies - 1559 views - 03/26/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
There is a well-known tension between the Feature Branches model and Continuous Integration: the approaches vary on a spectrum that goes from six-month...
0 replies - 1840 views - 03/18/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
My story with the Pomodoro Technique started in 2009, and in 2010 I was helping my team in adopting it. We used a simple Gnome applet at the time, not even a...
2 replies - 2010 views - 01/28/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
If your weekly calendar is a honeycomb of meetings, meetings and more meetings, it’s likely you come out of many of them feeling frustrated by how little was...
0 replies - 603 views - 01/24/13 by Laura M. Waite ... in Articles
While Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) has become a topic of great discussion for middle-management, especially in Development organizations, it has...
0 replies - 1384 views - 01/22/13 by Mahesh Singh in Articles
The method wars are over and Agile has won. But just like any war, peace time comes with its own set of problems and issues. As Agile becomes the de-facto way...
0 replies - 4334 views - 01/15/13 by Dave West in Articles
From technical tasks to user stories, the change is not easy. Here is an experience on how to break down the transition in steps into different models, from...
0 replies - 1275 views - 01/14/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Change is inevitable and nowhere is it most apparent then in the software technology space. Surely we all adapt to these changes that are quite the norm in...
0 replies - 2515 views - 01/04/13 by Ganesh Ghag in Articles
What is Agile Modeling and why do I need it?
Agile Modeling is an add-on to existing agile methodologies like Extreme programming (XP) and Rational Unified...
0 replies - 3856 views - 12/27/12 by Todd Merritt in Articles
This post is inspired by The Magic Suitcase article by Francesco Cirillo, on the value on searching the simplest (and lighter) solution over adding weight and...
0 replies - 1046 views - 12/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
The Agile Manifesto lays out four values and twelve principles that guide the pragmatic approach to software development. Through my experience as an agile...
0 replies - 3227 views - 12/08/12 by Nirav Assar in Articles
It’s day 4 of our first agile ITOps sprint and so far it’s pretty much going to script. Our estimation of how much work we would be able to get through is...
0 replies - 1580 views - 12/02/12 by James Betteley in Articles
