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Lean tools: Iterations

Mary Poppendieck points out three principles of iterations:short iterations force small batches, where features move quickly through the system. It's not...

0 replies - 3410 views - 04/11/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

YouTrack 4.0 EAP With Agile Project Management Is Open!

YouTrack 4.0 is fully devoted to agile project management. Now it’s time to lift the curtain and unveil a completely new module in YouTrack, called Agile....

0 replies - 3712 views - 04/06/12 by Valerie Andrianova in Articles

Lean tools: Feedback

Feedback is one of the foundations of the Agile movement and of any iterative methodology for developing software. Lean tools for amplifying learning feature...

0 replies - 4107 views - 04/03/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Finding wiring bugs

The best way to scale a test suite to hundreds of classes and to maintain it for several years is to focus only on unit tests for specifying and checking the...

0 replies - 3266 views - 04/02/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Questioning the Validity of Agile in All Work Environments

As a developer I have some fundamental beliefs about work, acquired through literature, that I shared, and as a team we tested, and with some success we...

0 replies - 2367 views - 03/30/12 by Tom Howlett in Articles

Lean Tools: Value Stream Mapping

There are some markets with very little variability of evolution of goods, and that as such can support a very long value stream before arriving in the hands...

0 replies - 4682 views - 03/29/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

A Manifest for Agile DevOps

I’ve decided.  We need to start doing points poker here at Baseblack if we’re going to carry on this Agile DevOps thing.  I’ve got to admit, the first...

1 replies - 4264 views - 03/24/12 by Tom O'connor in Articles

My Preferred Approach to Agile User Interface Design

The role of design still puzzles many Scrum and Kanban teams I work with. When should the design activities take place? Who should carries them out? How...

0 replies - 5048 views - 03/22/12 by Roman Pichler in Articles

Agile Practice and Game Theory

Much of the Agile movement has been influenced by scientific theories, like Complexity Theory, Chaos Theory or Game Theory. Let's look at how the latter can be...

0 replies - 1755 views - 03/22/12 by Tony Siciliani in Articles

Video: Exploiting the Cloud for Speedy Development and Continuous Delivery

This Agile Web Practices webinar follows the announcement of a partnership between CollabNet and CloudBees.  Willie Wang, CollabNet VP of Products &...

0 replies - 1880 views - 03/19/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Lean Tools: Seeing Waste

Every developer that has heard about the Lean movement knows that there are seven lean principles to use as a foundation for this approach in every industry -...

0 replies - 8528 views - 03/19/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Micromanagement vs. Macromanagement

I’ve always been concerned that some agile practices are applied even when they are not appropriate for a particular situation. I’ve called this Agile...

2 replies - 3743 views - 03/12/12 by Jim Highsmith in Articles

TFS Preview - Creating Product Backlog

This post is continued from TFS Preview – Creating an Account & Projects so if you haven’t read that and are interested in knowing how to create a...

0 replies - 3939 views - 03/10/12 by Punit Ganshani in Articles

The Two Hand Rule for Meandering Stand Ups

When working with Agile teams the daily stand up meeting provides a heart beat to the day and an opportunity for team members to share information. Stand...

1 replies - 2863 views - 03/06/12 by Benjamin Mitchell in Articles

10 Ways to Kill Your Retrospective

It’s about time for a new list. Today, I decided to write a list on how to mess up your retrospective. There are a lot of possibilities to do this and...

1 replies - 4246 views - 03/05/12 by Marc Löffler in Articles