If your weekly calendar is a honeycomb of meetings, meetings and more meetings, it’s likely you come out of many of them feeling frustrated by how little was...
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While Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) has become a topic of great discussion for middle-management, especially in Development organizations, it has...
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How to Improve your Team Productivity
Retrospectives are used frequently to give teams the opportunity to pause and reflect on how things have been going and...
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Introduction:
Planning and estimation are two of the main factors that can influence the outcome of any project. So with the wide adaption of agile...
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In Italy we aren't just able to cook nicely but we also take a look at how we develop software to try to improve. :) The Italian Agile Day is one of the most...
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Introduction:
In the past few years an increasing number of styles of software development models, referred to as agile methodologies have been gaining a...
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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 - 2080 views - 08/13/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 - 2757 views - 08/06/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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...
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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 - 3366 views - 07/18/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 - 2788 views - 07/11/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 - 2589 views - 07/04/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 - 3118 views - 06/27/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 - 2959 views - 06/20/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 - 4720 views - 06/13/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
