
Today we started day 1 of our first ever ITOps sprint. This all came about because we needed a way of working out our productivity on “project tasks”, as...
0 replies - 2346 views - 12/01/12 by James Betteley in Articles

Imagine you want to introduce automated configuration management to your organization. You’ve read all the books and even visited a great conference...
1 replies - 3077 views - 11/29/12 by Matthias Marschall in Articles

I have started to write up a more useful description of Xanpan. In doing so two things have happened. First I’ve realised that I have an awful lot I would...
0 replies - 2390 views - 11/27/12 by Allan Kelly in Articles

In Italy we aren't just able to cook nicely but we also take a look at how we develop software to try to improve. :) The Italian Agile Day is one of the most...
0 replies - 1801 views - 11/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Introduction:
In the past few years an increasing number of styles of software development models, referred to as agile methodologies have been gaining a...
0 replies - 3628 views - 11/14/12 by Mohamed Kishawy in Articles

Israel Gat, director of Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management practice, shares his thoughts on how technical debt can affect...
0 replies - 1405 views - 11/05/12 by Michael Muller in Articles

Warning: this is my own experience with Class-Responsibilities-Collaborators cards and you may have different opinions about how they should be used for...
0 replies - 2340 views - 10/31/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Can't decide which better fits your team? While Kanban is very light, basically focusing on
visual workflow and WIP limits and leaving all the...
0 replies - 1035 views - 10/30/12 by Dovile Sinkeviciute in Announcements

Their is no magical elixir, mobster payoff, or performance enhancing
drug that makes a good programmer. Developers come from all walks of
life. Some have...
0 replies - 6864 views - 10/10/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

It's been a while since I presented my programmer experience with the Pomodoro technique. Here are my updates and the recap of the goals we should follow when...
7 replies - 3055 views - 10/01/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

We've all heard that the only way to get good at fixing bugs in through
experience – the school of hard knocks. Experienced programmers aren’t
afraid...
1 replies - 8018 views - 09/08/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Test-Driven Development is a code-level practice, based on running automated tests that are written before the production code they exercise. But practices can...
0 replies - 2575 views - 09/03/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

If
you’re curious what is happening this week, the entire LeadingAgile
team is here in Dallas, Texas at Agile 2012. Dennis and Mike are
presenting...
0 replies - 3502 views - 08/16/12 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

Contracts are often a pain point of Agile transitions: how can you establish iterations where you deliver working software every two weeks, and collect...
0 replies - 2074 views - 08/13/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

The last two Lean tools we will explore are related to Systems Thinking: concretely, a way for modeling your team or company as a whole, without the usual...
0 replies - 2753 views - 08/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles