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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 - 3596 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 - 2111 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 - 2789 views - 08/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Lean Tools: Refactoring

Refactoring is one of the basic tools in Agile development: it consists in changing the form of the code without changing its function. While refactoring, you...

0 replies - 3108 views - 08/01/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Lean Tools: Perceived Integrity

We will now explore the Lean principle "Build Integrity In" and its applications to every day coding, starting from software integrity. Integrity has...

0 replies - 3447 views - 07/18/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Lean Tools: Expertise

Sensei Claudio Perrone says that Lean is making money by investing on people (more than on processes or technology, for example).What are the competitive...

0 replies - 2821 views - 07/11/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Domain Driven Automation

AbstractDevelop a database web app with a polished User Interface and complex, multi-table business logic with no code, just 15 annotations?  Impossible?? But...

0 replies - 8017 views - 07/06/12 by Val Huber in Articles

Lean tools: Leadership

According to the Poppendiecks, the differences between a manager and a leader is that a manager cope with complexity while a leader cope with change (which is...

0 replies - 2636 views - 07/04/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Lean Tools: Motivation

There is a great difference between a team where people want to work and one where they're looking forward to 5 PM and to go home. I suppose we don't need any...

0 replies - 3200 views - 06/27/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Lean Tools: Self-Determination

We are in the realm of the "Empower the team" principle. If it seems a fluffy topic, bear with me. It is difficult to face because it involves...

0 replies - 3017 views - 06/20/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

5 Common Antipatterns in Software Project Management

Overplanning/analysis/meetings: Some companies or project teams falls into error of spending time for the project planning /analysis/meetings much more...

0 replies - 10381 views - 06/13/12 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles

Lean tools: Cost of delay

Let's try to answer a question which many programmers would find not so important. Why is every Lean practitioner obsessed with delivering early?Of course, a...

0 replies - 4915 views - 06/13/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Free Tech Webinar on 7 Myths about Agile

Free Tech Webinar on 7 Myths about Agile Presenter: Joseph Flahiff Date & Time: Friday, June 01, 2012 - 12:00 Noon to 01:00 PM PST Corp-Corp.com...

0 replies - 1596 views - 05/31/12 by Chandhiya Marimuthu in Announcements

Lean tools: Pull systems

In the next few articles of this series based on Lean software development: an Agile toolkit, we will explore the Deliver as fast as possible principle, the...

0 replies - 3379 views - 05/30/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Lean tools: Making decisions

Product development and by extension software development is a game of decisions:should the application include a feature to block users?Does class A or class...

0 replies - 4652 views - 05/23/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles