Johannes Brodwall03/23/13
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Real-Time Coding Competition with Extreme Startup

In the exercise, each group creates a bare-bones web server in a programming language of their choice and register its URL with the workshop server on my computer. The workshop server then starts asking each registered web server questions over http. In the beginning of the competition, the workshop participants don’t know anything.

Mitch Pronschinske03/23/13
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Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for UX Research Projects

Josh has been creating great technology products for more than 20 years. A UX design leader, Josh has worked in hardware and software, consumer and enterprise, mobile, web, and desktop. He was head of product design at Wall Street innovator Liquidnet, and lead pioneering interaction design teams at Cooper.

Cagdas Basaraner03/23/13
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10 Scrum Methodology Best Practices

10 quick hit techniques with a short bit of advice that can make your Scrum practices so much better. Check this list out for sure!

Steve Smith03/22/13
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Treat Technical Stories as User Stories

Technical stories with demonstrable business value are rare, but can and should be prioritized with user stories

Mike Cohn03/21/13
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Seeing How Well a Team’s Story Points Align from One to Eight

The topic of how well a team estimates two point stories relative to one point stories (and so on) has come up in a couple of comments and replies on this blog recently, so let's discuss it. Here's a graph showing relevant data from one company.

Kane Mar03/21/13
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5 Big Scrum Questions – Issue 1

I have devised five questions that I intend to put to some of the leading lights in the Scrum industry, either famous, infamous or just those with a raft of experience. The questions are Scrum related and by asking them I hope to provide an insight into how these people think and what they think about Scrum.

Roman Pichler03/21/13
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The Product Backlog as a Learning Tool

Viewing the product backlog as a learning tool facilitates the development of successful products. But it requires overcoming the misconception that the requirements of a new product can be correctly determined upfront.

Venkatesh Kris...03/21/13
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Who is a True Agile Coach?

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to work closely with Craig Larman. I consider Craig not only a great coach but a teacher and facilitator. Craig has gone through the rigorous process of becoming a professional coach. However, most ScrumMasters and agile coaches are not so lucky.

Jurgen Appelo03/21/13
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Stop Blaming the System!

I see it again and again. The suggestion of systems thinkers and Agile writers to stop blaming people and instead try blaming the system.

Steve Smith03/21/13
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Story Tasks need Systems Thinking

When splitting a story into tasks, it’s important to remember motivation. Regardless of agile flavour, we split stories into testable tasks so that developers can continuously check in production-ready feature increments, and testers can continuously contribute feedback on the current story.

Mike Cottmeyer03/20/13
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My Perspective on Remote Work

The proclamation by Marissa Mayer last month, informing Yahoo employees that working from home is no longer an option, really seemed to bring an important conversation front and center.

Tom Howlett03/20/13
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Flow and Attachment

I open the standup with no expectations of where it will go. We walk the board starting on the right. I read out the name of stories in turn and those who’ve been working on them happily or reluctantly report them done and ready to pull.

David Pollak03/20/13
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Team Mind Melds… Very Important

Back in the day, I ran a small spreadsheet company, Athena Design that took on the big spreadsheet companies (Lotus, Informix) and won. I had a spectacularly stellar team.

James Betteley03/20/13
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Adopting Agile in 3 “Easy” Steps

A business starts “Adopting Agile”, usually driven by the development team, where they start doing stand-ups and using a sprint board (this is phase 1) and somehow they are surprised when this doesn’t suddenly start producing profit. Clearly, “becoming Agile” isn’t as simple as that.