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Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

Getting Started with GlassFish v3

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The Effect of Adding New People to Project Teams

I've read quite frequently about the challenges we will experience when adding new people onto teams, including Fred Brooks' 'The Mythical Man Month', but...

4 replies - 2232 views - 10/21/09 by markhneedham in Articles

An Agile Team in Flux

In late 2008, ThoughtWorks was called in to remove legacy systems and initiate an Agile cultural shift for a large international communications firm. ...

0 replies - 1177 views - 10/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

OO Design for Testability

We design our code for performance, maintenance, simplicity, extensibility and other goals, but most of us do not think about testability as a design...

0 replies - 2664 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Measuring velocity is not enough to determine team productivity

An interesting question was brought up in a recent LinkedIn discussion thread: "Is velocity the right approach to measure productivity of team...

0 replies - 301 views - 10/16/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

"Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease"

The above quote was tossed off by Billy Hollis at the patterns&practices Summit this week in Redmond.

0 replies - 690 views - 10/16/09 by Ted Neward in News

Epic Management Improvements in ScrumWorks 4.1

More improvements in large-scale agile software development are emerging today as Danube Technologies has released the 4.1 version of ScrumWorks Pro, the only...

1 replies - 934 views - 10/12/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Danube's Michael James on Scrum Adoption

Scrum is beginning to emerge as an increasingly popular choice for organizations seeking to improve software quality, decrease time-to-market, and stay...

0 replies - 5678 views - 10/08/09 by lyndsey in Videos

Burndown Charts - It's not about staying below the line

I recently participated in a Scrum development discussion thread on Yahoo Groups where one member new to Scrum asked the following: "Our burndown chart's...

0 replies - 452 views - 10/07/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

The Problem With Planning

I think I've been pretty successful in my career. But if I was better at planning, I wouldn't have achieved half the things I've achieved in my career! In...

0 replies - 323 views - 10/06/09 by Kelly Waters in Articles

Lean and Kanban Collection

For those of you interested in Lean and Kanban, but not much knowledge yet, it can be tough filter the noise and find information explaining what they are and...

0 replies - 1989 views - 10/05/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

QTB: Agile Governance – Managing the Enterprise Issues

I went to watch the latest ThoughtWorks Australia Quarterly Technology Briefing in Sydney on Wednesday where my colleague Lindy Stephens, Suncorp's Josh...

0 replies - 690 views - 10/02/09 by markhneedham in News

Pair Programming - Dispelling the Conspiracy

Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. ...

2 replies - 3126 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Scrum shortcomings

Many of us have come to love Scrum, including me. Scrum has been a huge success overall and has turned many a development team around and for the better. Yet...

2 replies - 842 views - 09/29/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Exclusive Interview: VP Sue McKinney on IBM's Agile Transformation

If there were ever any doubts about agile's ability to scale within large organizations, Sue McKinney might have some encouraging words of advice. The VP of...

0 replies - 5879 views - 09/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos