Agile Zone | Software Methodologies for Development Managers

Giorgio Sironi03/18/13
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Continuous Integration and Pull Requests

There is a well-known tension between the Feature Branches model and Continuous Integration: the approaches vary on a spectrum that goes from six-month long and version-based branches to the deployment of every commit. Today I want to explore one particular instance of Feature Branch, called Pull Request.

Steve Smith03/18/13
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Technical Lead != Team Lead

During my career, I’ve worked with, for, and as a Technical Lead, Technical Authority, Technical Architect, Team Lead, and a Agile Team Lead. With my developer hat firmly on, I would suggest the above comprise two distinct roles:

Mike Cottmeyer03/18/13
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The Two Faces of Agile

Some folks are using agile to invent. They are trying to figure out the right products to build for markets that don’t even know what they want.

Dave Rooney03/18/13
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The Power of Community Agreements and India Driving

From my 30+ years of experience driving in Canada, the U.S. and France, Indian traffic appears to be complete chaos. However, it all just seems to work, and I saw fewer collisions of any sort than I would have seen during a similar 2 week period in Canada. Why is this the case? ... Community Agreements.

Esther Derby 03/18/13
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Self-Awareness Matters: Finding Your Filters

Learning about your own filters builds self-awareness. Knowing what you tend to filter allows you to choose to ignore that information or make a conscious choice to notice it.

Gil Zilberfeld03/16/13
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The Agile Alignment

When does agile work? When management commits to it. In fact, Jeff Sutherland as a VC, backs only companies that their management is committed to do the change (or already practicing scrum).

Tom Howlett03/16/13
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Jim and Jo Go Pairing

Hear two stories about Jim and Jo. In one story they are very happy pair programming. In the other, they are not.

Jurgen Appelo03/16/13
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The T-Shirt Test

You pass the t-shirt test when people proudly wear a t-shirt with the logo of your organization on it. Would you proudly wear a t-shirt with your own name? The name of your spouse? Your employer?

Mitch Pronschinske03/15/13
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10 Things You Can do to Better Lead Your Agile Team

Agile leadership is different. Agile teams don’t like to be micromanaged, command and control doesn’t work, and yet how many agile projects get bad, or the wrong style of leadership applied to them? It kills projects, demotivates teams, and gives agile a bad name.

Jurgen Appelo03/15/13
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360 Degrees Dinner - Peer Evaluations At The Dinner Table

Invite the whole team for dinner,and tell them in advance that, before or after dinner, the team will evaluate each team member's performance, at the dinner table, face-to-face. You, as a manager or team leader, will volunteer to be the first one to be evaluated.