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 - 9653 views - 05/25/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Arlo Belshee and Jim Shore had an interesting pair presentation on
titled “Single Piece Flow in Kanban” at LSSC10. A more accurate
(although...
1 replies - 2507 views - 05/04/10 by Michael Sahota in News
Jared Richardson says that agile is going mainstream in many areas, but many companies have only made a partial agile transformation which Richardson calls...
0 replies - 2938 views - 04/22/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
My essay on the
problems with acceptance testing caused a bit of a furor. (Gojko
Adzic, George
Dinwiddie, Ron
Jeffries.) The biggest criticism was...
1 replies - 11579 views - 03/03/10 by James Shore in News
The prioritization of Stories is a core practice in the Scrum agile
development process. In fact it is probably the single most important
responsibility of...
4 replies - 9445 views - 01/19/10 by Craig Dickson in Articles
New agile methodologies are sometimes criticized for simply
re-labelling old practices and calling them 'new'. Scrum in particular
is critcized for...
0 replies - 5702 views - 01/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Kanban looks like it's becoming the next big trend in agile
development. With its simple, adaptive approach to work organization,
Kanban's Lean approach to...
0 replies - 6131 views - 01/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Mark Lines is a Co-founder of Unified Process Mentors who also works on IBM's worldwide advisory board for methods. He's familiar with almost every flavor of...
0 replies - 2198 views - 01/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Software development methodologies, like the technologies they produce, have have continued their march forward. 2009 saw some significant changes in how...
0 replies - 4933 views - 12/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
This is the second part of a two-part article introducing Jeff De Luca’s Feature Driven Development
(FDD) process. In particular, we are looking at...
1 replies - 14077 views - 12/04/09 by Stephen Palmer in Articles
Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. ...
3 replies - 6841 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles
It's been nine months since I created the Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever, with the best books ever released. I still refer to it when I want to...
0 replies - 20593 views - 03/04/09 by Jurgen Appelo in News
Kanban techniques have been successful in many different industries, especially ones that don't seem to fit with agile methodologies. IT application...
0 replies - 5757 views - 01/15/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Fred
Brooks’s law of adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
is one most of us have tried to prove wrong... and failed!
I was at Agile...
2 replies - 5540 views - 10/11/08 by Richard Sharpe in News
For agile project management, agile development methodologies, such as Scrum and eXtreme Programming, alone are not enough.Scrum is excellent for managing a...
1 replies - 3594 views - 05/09/08 by Kelly Waters in News
