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Mitch Pronschinske01/01/13
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7 Ways to Make Good Teams Great

Important info from the leaders in collaboration - Atlassian, about how you can make your dev teams better.

Mitch Pronschinske01/01/13
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The Ultimate Guide to Greenhopper 6.0

Greenhopper 6.1 introduced epics , but Greenhopper 6.0 had a ton of features that you should check out if you haven't already.

Mitch Pronschinske12/31/12
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Moving from Scrum to Kanban

Many teams who are already using Scrum would like to know what benefits they can get by moving to Kanban. Dropping the Sprint timebox can seem quite scary but on the other hand spending less time planning and estimating seems attractive to many developers.

Mitch Pronschinske12/31/12
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Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell

An old friend of mine, Henrik Kniberg (he's a big innovator in Scrum + Kanban integration), posted a great video on Agile Product Ownership. This is basically a 1 day product ownership course compressed into 15 minute animated presentation.

Mitch Pronschinske12/31/12
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Agile at Scale: Atlassian GreenHopper for Large Organizations

Large organizations can handle agile just as well as small ones with the right tools and the acknowledgement that many agile teams does not make an agile organization.

Mitch Pronschinske12/26/12
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The Mikado Method - Making Code Changes Less of an Impact

The Mikado Method is a simple straight forward methodology for large scale refactoring. It's a way to peel the layers of complexity away from any system. Systematically attack refactoring, in the knowledge that every change you make will be for the better of the system, rather than hoping it will be.

Mitch Pronschinske12/23/12
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Mike Cohn's "Succeeding With Agile"

Mike Cohn talks about his course Succeeding With Agile course, and the secrets of successfully doing advanced software development with Scrum.

Mitch Pronschinske12/21/12
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Scrum at Google

You may not have found this awesome google tech talk from 2006. It tells the story of how a group implemented Scrum at Google and what they did to tune it to their own particular style and needs.

Mitch Pronschinske12/21/12
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Atlassian GreenHopper 6.1 Introduces Epics

Epics have just been introduced in Atlassian's GreenHopper 6.1 agile management tool. It's a new feature for Scrum teams that enables them to organise a growing backlog. Epics represent big feature areas that the team will break down into stories and complete over a number of sprints.

Mitch Pronschinske12/20/12
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10 Tips to Making Products That People Will Love

Over the past 30 years, Marty Cagan has defined and built products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, America Online, and eBay. He shared his top 10 secrets to creating products customers love.

Mitch Pronschinske12/19/12
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What’s New in Mingle 12.4?

We all know there are countless project management tools out there. One of the more Agile among them, Mingle, had a new release. And another tool, Go for Continuous Delivery, has OpenJDK support now.

Mitch Pronschinske12/19/12
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Agile Performance Skills Matrix Template

The Skills Matrix is something out of the Toyota Talent book that is used to help conduct agile performance evaluations for yourself and team members. Get the overview sheet and the awesome template to try it out. They're attached to the article.

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/12
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Top 10 Lessons Learned From 10 Years in Agile

Robert Holler, the CEO of VersionOne, and his colleagues got together earlier this year and discussed the lessons they had learned through ten years of insight into agile software development. "Hopefully we've learned more than just ten lessons," Holler told me humorously. Here were the insights he gave...

Mitch Pronschinske12/09/12
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Data Integration vs. API Integration vs. Systems of Engagement Level Integration

The method wars are over and Agile has won. But just like any war, peace time comes with its own set of problems and issues. As Agile becomes the de-facto way teams build software the impact on the other processes and systems become widespread.

Mitch Pronschinske11/06/12
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Deployment: A Bottleneck No More

There's no magic tool that will completely solve organizational woes, but it would be crazy to deny that some tools make things a lot easier.