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Getting Meetings Where You Want Them To Go

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...

0 replies - 605 views - 01/24/13 by Laura M. Waite ... in Articles

7 Smart New Year ALM Resolutions for CIOs and Senior IT Execs

While Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) has become a topic of great discussion for middle-management, especially in Development organizations, it has...

0 replies - 1390 views - 01/22/13 by Mahesh Singh in Articles

“The 4 Questions” of a Retrospective and Why They Work

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...

1 replies - 3455 views - 01/15/13 by Laura M. Waite ... in Articles

Agile Planning & Estimation

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...

0 replies - 2603 views - 01/04/13 by Mohamed Kishawy in Articles

What I learned at the Italian Agile Day 2012

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...

0 replies - 1803 views - 11/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Agile Methodologies - The Missing Path

Introduction: In the past few years an increasing number of styles of software development models, referred to as agile methodologies have been gaining a...

0 replies - 3656 views - 11/14/12 by Mohamed Kishawy 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 - 2080 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 - 2757 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 - 3040 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 - 3366 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 - 2788 views - 07/11/12 by Giorgio Sironi 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 - 2589 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 - 3118 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 - 2959 views - 06/20/12 by Giorgio Sironi 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 - 4720 views - 06/13/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles