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Interview: Alan Shalloway on Lean Agile Software Development, Part Two

Today I'm privileged to share with you the remainder of an interview that I conducted with Alan Shalloway (you can read part one here). I first encountered...

0 replies - 2098 views - 07/15/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Cross-Functional Teams Don't Come Free

How should people be grouped together? Basically there are two main options to choose from: group people by similar function or by similar business. Grouping...

1 replies - 2741 views - 07/13/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Interview: Alan Shalloway on Lean Agile Software Development, Part One

Today I'm privileged to share with you the first portion of an interview that I conducted with Alan Shalloway (part two will run on Thursday). I first...

0 replies - 3686 views - 07/13/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

How To Succeed With Scrum When Your Company Is Anti-Agile

This post is inspired by a question on LinkedIn but I felt required a full blog post to really explain the answer. There are plenty of companies that still...

1 replies - 2560 views - 07/12/10 by Robert Diana in News

Prioritizing the Product Backlog

Editor's Note:  The following article, excerpted from Roman Pichler's book, "Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that...

0 replies - 6889 views - 07/12/10 by Roman Pichler in Articles

ScrumWorks Pro 4.4 Harnesses CollabNet Framework

Acquired by CollabNet in February, the developers from Danube have released the next version of their Scrum-based project management software.  Newly unveiled...

0 replies - 3915 views - 07/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Our Divisive Scrum Terminology Needs to be Deprecated

I’ve finally come to the realization that the terminology is divisive and needs to be deprecated. Take the chicken & pig story used in many...

2 replies - 1680 views - 07/07/10 by David Bland in News

Functional Managers Acting as Scrum Masters: Not a Good Idea

I often meet people who are transitioning to agile, and they decided to pick Scrum, because it’s a helpful project management framework. Ok, that makes...

4 replies - 2969 views - 06/30/10 by Johanna Rothman in News

Hyperproductivity in Scrum

Last year sometime, I had the pleasure of hearing Jeff Sutherland speak at the Agile Atlanta group here in town. One of the things that Jeff always brings...

1 replies - 2228 views - 06/28/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

ScrumMasters Now Earn More Money Than Project Managers

According to the latest data from Indeed.com, the annual salary of a ScrumMaster now surpasses that of a Project Manager. Even more surprising, is just...

3 replies - 7656 views - 06/14/10 by David Bland in News

Agile Case Studies - Balancing Anarchy and Co-op with Scrum

If everybody on a 100-person project should talk to everybody else, we'd have to work overtime just to cover the meetings. Of course, this is before we...

3 replies - 7120 views - 06/11/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Agile Scrum, Or Not-So-Agile Scrum?

Scrum is the form of agile software development that has helped me the most. It has helped me to transform the performance of the web development groups...

1 replies - 1569 views - 06/02/10 by Kelly Waters in News

Defensive Scrum Is NOT Agile

The business side of the house can be difficult at times. They can challenge our estimates, claim that work is not half as difficult as we make it out to...

1 replies - 2558 views - 05/25/10 by Peter Schuh in News

Writing user stories for web applications

User stories are the substitute of formal requirements documents in an agile environment: they are short summaries of a functionality that leave space to...

1 replies - 9644 views - 05/25/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Bad or Good? Behavior Driven Development within Scrum.

I wanted to explore the possibility of using JBehave to formalise scrums definition of done. The idea being to encapsulate a definition of done as a...

2 replies - 6732 views - 05/19/10 by Martin Harris in News