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How agile is your space?

In this tour of the Microsoft Patterns & Practices office workspaces, there are some interesting points brought up on building collaborative agile...

0 replies - 2623 views - 09/05/11 by Caleb Jenkins in News

Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Bidirectional Association to Unidirectional

This refactoring is the inverse of Change Unidirectional Association to Bidirectional. We start from a bidirectional association, where two objects reference...

0 replies - 4268 views - 09/05/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Overcoming three mental blocks to listening in difficult conversations

 If you listen to most conversations you’ll hear remarkably few questions. When a conversation becomes difficult then we drop all questions; we spend...

0 replies - 1234 views - 09/04/11 by Benjamin Mitchell in News

Rewind Your Mind

“A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes” – Helmut Jan This...

0 replies - 1710 views - 09/04/11 by David Bland in News

Why self-organized teams are so important

It's a situation that I run into with new Scrum teams all the time. Their work is complicated you see, there's all of these dependencies for every...

1 replies - 2497 views - 09/04/11 by Sean Mchugh in News

Changing People's Barriers

ADKAR is a great model to guide change management initiatives at the personal level.  In an earlier post I described Change Management 3.0, and it’s...

0 replies - 934 views - 08/31/11 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Unidirectional Association to Bidirectional

Object graphs are built by maintaining references to other objects inside an object's fields (usually private). These associations are persisted and stored by...

0 replies - 4469 views - 08/31/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Lean Startup: It Rocks Far More than Agile

Joshua Kerievsky posted this most excellent table illustrating some of the differences between Agile and Lean Startup. I think this is so awesome because it...

4 replies - 4851 views - 08/30/11 by Abby Fichtner in News

The Art of Handling Elephants in the Room

When we spot and elephant in the room, or an undiscussable topic that isn’t being addressed, it is tempting to tackle it head on.  However, just naming...

0 replies - 1252 views - 08/30/11 by Benjamin Mitchell in News

There's no reason not to switch to DocBlox

Alessandro Nadalin signals these three options for Api documentation generation, the process of extracting Api informations on classes and methods from a...

4 replies - 7484 views - 08/30/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

What Team Does the Product Owner/Responsible Person Belong To?

In my post, When You Have No Product Owner at All, I said That’s because agile needs a responsible person who is not part of the cross-functional...

1 replies - 1411 views - 08/29/11 by Johanna Rothman in News

What Are Best Practices for Agile Managers?

What are the best practices for Agile managers? Which recurring tasks should managers put on their task lists?  Yes I know, there is no such thing as a...

1 replies - 1177 views - 08/29/11 by Jurgen Appelo in News

5 Steps to Introduce an Agile Tool

There are tons of agile tools out there. Just have a look at this looooooong list on Mike Cohn’s site. But what is the best way to introduce such a tool...

0 replies - 2266 views - 08/29/11 by Marc Löffler in News

Practical PHP Refactoring: Duplicate Observed Data

In the scenario of today, we have informations of some kind which are present in the view (script, variables, presentational objects, JSON) but not in the...

0 replies - 3935 views - 08/29/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

When You Have No Product Owner At All

What happens when you have no product owner at all? How does a team know what features to develop in what order? Several teams I know encountered...

1 replies - 3520 views - 08/25/11 by Johanna Rothman in News