Difficult conversations are often unplanned and sneak up on us.
Spotting the signs that your conversation is about to turn toxic gives
you a chance...
1 replies - 2667 views - 08/24/11 by Benjamin Mitchell in News
This refactoring is a specialization of Replace Data Value with Object: its goal is to replace a scalar or primitive structure (in this case, an ever-present...
0 replies - 5521 views - 08/24/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
At the Agile 2011 we celebrated the 10th anniversary
of the Agile Manifesto. One thing that occurred to me about how to
celebrate this was to re-publish...
0 replies - 709 views - 08/23/11 by Jim Highsmith in News
Barbara Fredrickson gave a great Keynote at Agile 2011 – Why care about positive emotions?
The essential message is that we can create positive...
1 replies - 2029 views - 08/23/11 by Michael Sahota in News
Design Studio is a quite simple and efficient way to run UX meetings. Yesterday we tried it for the first time. There are several variations of Design Studio,...
0 replies - 1876 views - 08/23/11 by Michael Dubakov in News
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 - 636 views - 08/22/11 by Benjamin Mitchell in News
This post identifies acceptance tests for successful thought leadership within the Scrum Alliance. See also: Models for Success and Concrete Actions (&...
0 replies - 1637 views - 08/22/11 by Michael Sahota in News
Recently, I attended two retrospectives. Different teams, different
states, different facilitators. I’m usually on the other side, leading...
1 replies - 983 views - 08/22/11 by Esther Derby in News
This refactoring targets simplification: it is the opposite of Change Value to Reference. An object whose lifecycle is tracked and which must have a single...
0 replies - 4193 views - 08/22/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
(Thanks to George Dinwiddie for inspiring me to finish this post, which had languished for several weeks!)
Simplicity is a core tenet of Agile Software...
0 replies - 976 views - 08/20/11 by Dave Rooney in News
I’ve decided to give Pomodoro technique a try. This is a fairly simple time-management system where one is supposed to work in chunks of 25 minutes without...
0 replies - 1418 views - 08/20/11 by Evgeny Goldin in News
In Scrum, sprints are time-boxed delivery cycles that help keep
the team focused on the goal. If you don’t know which goal I’m referring
to, check out...
0 replies - 1203 views - 08/19/11 by Daniel Ackerson in News
At the Agile 2011 conference 15 of the 17 Agile Manifesto authors
got together, once at the Park Bench panel in front of 1,000 +
attendees, and again at a...
0 replies - 1162 views - 08/19/11 by Jim Highsmith in News
There's no source code for this episode, but the previous episode's code is available here. Visit the Let's Play archive for more episodes!
Many thanks...
0 replies - 856 views - 08/19/11 by James Shore in News
Using the product backlog can be challenging, and many product owners
wrestle with overly long and detailed backlogs. The following ten tips
bring focus...
0 replies - 1549 views - 08/19/11 by Roman Pichler in News
