I sat for the Project Management Institute’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam earlier this week. The PMI-ACP tests your understanding of common...
0 replies - 1135 views - 05/17/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
Lean from the Trenches from Øredev Conference on Vimeo.Find out how the Swedish police combined Kanban, Scrum, and XP in a 60-person project.
This is a...
0 replies - 1558 views - 04/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
While doing the electronic equivalent of cleaning the attic yesterday, I
stumbled across an internal paper I wrote at a client back in late
September...
0 replies - 1420 views - 03/29/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles
In a nice tie-in to my previous assertion that the root cause of Flaccid Scrums is a lack of XP-like focus upon technical quality, Allan Kelly has written two...
0 replies - 1513 views - 03/11/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
Without the disciplined technical practices provided by XP, Scrum projects will always flounder. A classic post from 2010.
Martin Fowler wrote a...
0 replies - 2499 views - 03/01/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
My story with the Pomodoro Technique started in 2009, and in 2010 I was helping my team in adopting it. We used a simple Gnome applet at the time, not even a...
2 replies - 2013 views - 01/28/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
I know a lot of people who are transitioning to Agile or already following Agile development methods. Almost all of them are using something based on Scrum at...
0 replies - 4054 views - 01/24/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
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 - 3636 views - 11/14/12 by Mohamed Kishawy in Articles
Warning: this is my own experience with Class-Responsibilities-Collaborators cards and you may have different opinions about how they should be used for...
0 replies - 2341 views - 10/31/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
It's been a while since I presented my programmer experience with the Pomodoro technique. Here are my updates and the recap of the goals we should follow when...
7 replies - 3057 views - 10/01/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Options Thinking lead us to invest time and money in delaying decisions to a time where we know the most about it; the extreme application of the Decide as...
0 replies - 3033 views - 05/09/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Metaphors are very diffused in programming, trying to bridge the technical part of it with comprehension of real world objects. For example, think of technical...
0 replies - 3829 views - 04/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
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 - 1745 views - 03/22/12 by Tony Siciliano in Articles
Test-Driven Development has been my main workflow for software development in the last years. Its refinement, which I learn from GOOS is a double cycle applied...
0 replies - 9693 views - 03/15/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
This Saturday, 2200 software developers gathered in more than 90 cities around the world to improve their skills. This Global Day of Code Retreat was the...
2 replies - 6006 views - 12/05/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
