Agile Zone | Software Methodologies for Development Managers

Michael Mainguy05/14/13
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Apologetic Agile Development

Having lived through numerous attempts to build software embracing the concepts behind the agile manifesto, I feel there are three large categories folks fall into when talking about agile principles.

Michael Sahota05/14/13
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Connecting the Dots on Agile, Org Culture, Personal Growth & Temenos

A friend of mine asked me what is going on with all this touchy-feely people and personal growth stuff – “What’s it got to do with Agile?” My answer: everything! Here is a diagram of my Culture Reboot Roadmap.

Mitch Pronschinske05/14/13
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Managing Your Teams’ Agile Competency

A model of the predictable stages of agile team competency helps managers and leaders define the benefits they’re getting, determine the benefits they really want, and plan next steps. Join Diana Larsen in an exploration of ways leaders can use the model to analyze and monitor progress of Agile competence in teams.

Marco Tedone05/13/13
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ScruXBan as Execution Tool Within the ALT+F Framework

If the ALT+F templates show poor IT Operations performance, the next steps in the Adapt and Plan phases are to identify optimal targets to achieve operational excellence and best-in-class status and then to set the stage for an Agile and Lean transformation strategy that should be executed on two levels...

Giorgio Sironi05/13/13
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Game of life in Haskell

Functional approaches sometimes are much faster. I would like currying with no syntax overhead to be available in imperative languages, to easily transform method calls into closures.

Jakub Holý05/13/13
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What People in Large Organizations Can Learn From the Fighter Pilot John R. Boyd

Boyd, with his colleagues, have brought about many changes and had to fight hard against the Pentagon’s resistance to change - so typical of large bureaucratic organizations.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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My Mom Told me That Git Doesn't Scale

Did you have a good Mother's Day? This GitHub developer's mom is certainly interesting... Since day one, we've faced an unique engineering problem: making terabytes of Git data always available, either directly or through our website.

Michael Sahota05/13/13
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Temenos: Containers for Growing Relationships

The Temenos container provides a powerful mental model for understanding and improving relationships with others. The same notion can be used to understand groups we are part of as well as our relationship with ourselves.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 13)

See why Ars Technica thinks that the W3C’s new DRM framework will empower the open web and check out the benchmarking of Dart and Java. Plus a iOS 7 concept design and 7 tips on minion management.

Martin Hinshelwood05/13/13
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Naked ALM: Starting with 'Why' and Getting Naked

I believe that every company deserves working software that can be delivered on a consistent cadence. That cadence needs to be shorter than 30 day) and they need to get continuous feedback that is fed back into their backlog.

Michael Sahota05/12/13
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Build Culture Adapters to Avoid Agile Failure

The purpose of this post is to explain why building culture adapters around at team or group is a good idea. It is important for me to revisit this topic from my book and conference presentations since I have learned something new and wanted to share it. All but the last section is an excerpt from my book.

Allan Kelly05/11/13
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Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile...

"Developers work in sprints, estimating tasks in JIRA as they go. Sprints last three weeks, including planning, development and testing. I have been tasked to produce burndowns to keep track of how the Dev cells are doing.”

Tom Howlett05/11/13
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Fear Causes Us to Build the Wrong Thing

The classic tale of a year-long project finally being delivered only to discover it doesn’t meet the needs of the customer sounds ridiculous in the days of short iterations and customer collaboration but I’m guessing we are still a long way from delivering what’s really needed effectively. So what’s stopping us?

Rob Sanders05/10/13
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Estimating on an Agile Project

If you’ve ever had any involvement with an Agile project (whether it was “pure” Agile or not), you’ll likely have encountered the beast which is effort forecasting and analysis. This drives the initial estimate of the amount of work which your team thinks it can deliver within a given period.

Ian Mitchell05/09/13
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Product Backlogs in Practice

The seeds of backlog decay are often sown in the very willingness of an agile team to be adaptable. Urgent tasks are dealt with as they arise, and backlog items are pushed back to make way. Can anything be done to stop a Product Backlog from becoming the "Land of Forgotten Dreams"?