Apr26
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first eight parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players Part V: Sprint Execution Part VI: Key traits of Customer Champions Part VII: Key traits o...
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Monday, 26 Apr 2010 12:56.
Apr14
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first seven parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players Part V: Sprint Execution Part VI: Key traits of Customer Champions Part ...
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Wednesday, 14 Apr 2010 01:48.
Apr7
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first six parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players Part V: Sprint Execution Part VI: Key traits of Customer Champions In Part IV (Key Players) we...
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Wednesday, 7 Apr 2010 11:14.
Mar29
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first five parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players Part V: Sprint Execution In Part IV (Key Players) we discussed that an important role that someon...
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Monday, 29 Mar 2010 03:39.
Mar25
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first four parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players In Part III (Backlog Management), we talked about how features are placed on a backlog to set the vis...
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Thursday, 25 Mar 2010 12:16.
Mar25
Much like we write tests to assert that the code is really working the way it should, Nathaniel Talbott thinks we should be able to write experiments to provide us with facts that assert the usage of a feature of software is really valid. This is a novel concept, and he discusses it briefly in this interview over at InfoQ. It’s a common occurrence that customer representatives in a software proje...
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Thursday, 25 Mar 2010 11:42.
Mar12
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first three parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Although I’m trying to emphasize in these posts that companies well staffed for agile software projects don’t require any exac...
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Friday, 12 Mar 2010 09:59.
Mar10
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first two parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Depending on which statistic you believe, many researchers in the field of software development agree that the majority of projects that fail to make i...
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Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010 12:54.
Mar8
I’d like to continue the discussion about creating a healthy organizational environment for adopting agile practices in my prior post by starting at the top. Somewhere at the top of most organizations, including startups, are the executives or leaders responsible for steering the ship. At some older companies, this can be someone who worked hard for years and finally was promoted simply due to ha...
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Monday, 8 Mar 2010 12:48.
Mar3
I’ve been doing non-waterfall development for the past 10 years of my career in one form or another, and though Agile/SCRUM/XP practices are almost assumed at this point, I still see many organizations that need help with making it work. The agile transformation usually starts with a well-intentioned individual in a middle management or lead developer position who tries to set it forth upon an or...
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Wednesday, 3 Mar 2010 05:15.