Agile Zone | Software Methodologies for Development Managers

Jim Highsmith03/07/13
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Build Less, Start Sooner

So these two strategies, Build Less Software and Start Sooner, sound simple on the surface, but in practice they can be very difficult to implement because of organizational inertia and politics. But they can be very effective and worth the effort to pursue.

Jurgen Appelo03/06/13
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The Big List of Agile Practices

This post is probably going to be hated and loved at the same time. Because, when people talk about agile practices, they can sometimes become very religious. Which means I may be putting my head in a noose with this one.

Johanna Rothman03/06/13
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Organizing an Agile Program: Part 2, Networks for Managing Agile Programs

What works for small programs is going to be different from what works for medium programs. It is going to be different from what works for large programs. Why? It’s the scaling problem and the communication path problem. Larger programs are not linear scales of smaller programs.

Tathagat Varma03/06/13
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So, Does Agile Really Kill Innovation?

In continuation of my earlier blog post on ‘Does Agile Kill Innovation?’, the question continues to be, does agile implicitly become the rate-limiting step for your innovation process?

Olga Kouzina03/06/13
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Mastery vs. GTD

One of my favorite books, called "Mastery", gently reminds us of the basics for any learning making readers aware that the mass culture quest for scoring, quick wins and quick fixes at any rate proves wrong in the long run and brings along the consequences more grave than one can imagine.

Tobias Mayer03/05/13
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The Inadequacy of Feedback

Or more accurately, the inadequacy of the after-course evaluation process to gather meaningful and actionable feedback.

Michael Sahota03/05/13
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Agile Failure and Corporate Culture

I did a hand vote with a user group to see how much failure people had seen with Agile adoption they were involved in. The results were pretty much consistent with the other times I have run this: about 50% failure.

Steve Rogalsky03/05/13
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Agile Scope Completion Techniques

One of the questions I've received in the past about agile techniques is how to ensure you've captured enough detail about your requirements in order to proceed without missing major scope elements.

Jurgen Appelo03/05/13
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A Lead-By-Example Business Network

When you create a standard business, it is deceptively easy to create one legal entity with shareholders, appoint a top manager, form a management team, and a hire a truck load of employees to be bossed around and do all the work.

Mitch Pronschinske03/04/13
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Ted Talk: Agile Programming -- for Your Family

I found a new Ted Talk on agile methodologies applied to family life. I've actually read about many families who do this and I've even met a developer who does this. He used Scrum in his own home. Now this little movement is getting attention in the form of a Ted Talk. Watch it here...

Marc Löffler03/04/13
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Penitence For The 7 Agile Sins

Half a year ago I wrote a blog post about 7 Agile Sins. As I’m sure that I’m not the only one who is guilty for one or more of these sins, I collected a list of possible ways to show penitence and to do it better next time :) So here is my list of the sins and their appropriate penitence.

David Bernstein03/04/13
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Making the Right Tradeoffs

Together the principles and practices we follow help us make the right tradeoffs so we can build the best system within the constraints we must work in.

Esther Derby 03/04/13
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Agile Teams at Scale: Beyond Scrum of Scrums

Agile methods depend on effective cross-functional teams. We’ve heard many Agile success stories…at the team level. But what happens when a product can’t be delivered by one team? What do you do when the “team” that’s needed to work on a particular product is 20 people? Or 20 teams?

Mitch Pronschinske03/04/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/4/13)

A Java 0-day is found in the wild and Raspberry Pi sells 1 million units in 1 year. Plus, speculation about how the ancient Romans could have made a computer.

Esther Derby 03/03/13
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Peer-to-Peer Feedback

One of the traps people fall into on teams is withholding information that’s critical for the team to function. Sometimes the information is about friction between team members. When team members don’t have a way to talk about small frictions, they turn in to big events, damage relationships and spill over onto the team.