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Agile ITOps: Day 1

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

DevOps Protocols: Start Small

 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

10 Pieces of Advice for Teams

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

What I learned at the Italian Agile Day 2012

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

Agile Methodologies - The Missing Path

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

Interview with Israel Gat on Technical Debt

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

A CRC cards primer

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

Kanban or Scrum?

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

How Good Programmers Get It Done

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

The Pomodoro updates

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

Fixing Bugs – There’s No Substitute for Experience

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

Manual Test-Driven Development

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

Best Quote So Far from Agile 2012

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

Lean Tools: Contracts

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

Lean Tools: Measurements

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