agile

An alternative format for the daily stand-up

A couple of years have passed since Corey Ladas commented on the limitations of the basic form of the daily stand-up, or daily Scrum, when we begin to scale to...

0 replies - 1095 views - 04/16/09 by dnicolet in News

Agile Estimating

I've written quite a bit about various aspects of estimating in agile software development. I think it's about time I joined up the dots...PRODUCT BACKLOG

0 replies - 519 views - 04/06/09 by Kelly Waters in News

8 must read papers for project managers

I decided to do another article collection post. As I mentioned in the last post that I am extremely busy these days  as we're preparing to launch the...

0 replies - 2484 views - 04/03/09 by arnonrgo in News

Why I Don't Provide Agile Certification

There's been a lot said about certification lately. I think it's a natural outgrowth of Agile's growing popularity. Unfortunately, I think it's also an...

1 replies - 874 views - 04/01/09 by jdlshore in News

Agile thinking in action: A tale of two projects

These past few weeks at Lean Dog Software, there have been two project teams working on the main deck...er, that is, in the main room of the boat; the room...

0 replies - 881 views - 03/31/09 by dnicolet in News

Optimize Communication, Throw the Boss Out

It is well-known that difficult goals are best achieved when people work in small teams of under ten people. Various agile methods were created based on this...

0 replies - 842 views - 03/30/09 by jurgenappelo in News

Agile Release Train: A Whitepaper

Recently, I’ve been working with a  software enterprise helping them tune their agile process to better align the agile teams to the broader enterprise...

1 replies - 386 views - 03/27/09 by deanleffingwell... in News

Certification or Craftsmanship

About 10 years ago I recall studying profusely so that I might pass my Java programmer's certification exam. I purchased a copy of an exam cram book that had...

14 replies - 3660 views - 03/20/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Agile Methods - Delivering Software Faster

A core tenet of agile methodologies is to help teams deliver software more quickly. But with the plethora of agile practices available to choose from, teams...

1 replies - 3853 views - 03/16/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Teams are the Building Blocks of Agile Organizations

If you are going to embrace any form of agile, you need to start by thinking about your teams as the elemental building blocks of

0 replies - 409 views - 03/12/09 by mcottmeyer in News

Big Teams & Agility - Take 2

In Big Teams & Agility, I talked about a macro process for agile development on large teams (those up to, possibly exceeding, 100 developers).

1 replies - 2334 views - 03/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

The chapters of “Clean Code” are grouped into three parts. As it says in the introduction, part one “describes the principles, patterns and practices of writing clean code.” Part two contains...

1 replies - 5476 views - 03/02/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Video: Breaking Brooks's Law

Fred Brooks’s law of adding manpower to a late software project makes it later is one most of us have tried to prove wrong... and failed! I was at Agile 2008...

2 replies - 2923 views - 10/11/08 by Rich Sharpe in News

To Motivate or Not to Demotivate

Some people tell me that "you cannot motivate a person". You can only "remove the impediments that prevent a person from being motivated"....

2 replies - 583 views - 10/08/08 by jurgenappelo in News

ThoughtWorks Introduces Twist functional test tool for Java developers

ThoughtWorks released a "beta" of Twist, a new commercial functional testing platform for software teams. Twist features a design environment using...

2 replies - 3238 views - 09/30/08 by Frank Cohen in Announcements