In Praise of “Camps” (you’re going, right?)
“Camps,” if you’ve missed their advent entirely, are one- or two-day conferences that cost little or nothing, with content presented […]
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Agile: Not a Magic Pill
No one on software teams believes in waterfall any longer. That’s what The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance revealed.
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The most convincing reason to change from waterfall to agile
Given virtually no one on product teams believes in waterfall – even those using waterfall (see my last post on
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No One Believes in Waterfall
The most startling result coming out of this year’s just-released Study of Product Team Performance came in response to two
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Dance of Change
In the Dance of Change by Senge, et. al., the authors present five disciplines for individuals and teams to study
Colleges: Teach the “How”!
We’re at an inflection point. Agile practices transitioned over the last couple years from “emerging” to “predominant”. Companies are sampling
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Remote Pair Programming
I’ve been enamored of remote pair programming since briefly leading development at Socialtext, where no three developers were in the
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Software development – not by PERT alone
I have great respect for software developers. Because software is abstract, invisible and runs at extreme speeds, the people who
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Why should we be Agile or Lean?
There is a lot of skepticism about Agile and Lean among business managers for a lot of good reasons. It’s best that we understand these reasons, because they shouldn’t keep us from proceeding with Agile and Lean transformations of our companies and projects.
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90%?
“Project management? That’s just a lot of useless overhead!” I remember hearing variations of this a lot years ago.
Agile or Not Agile
When is an Agile development effort not so agile? When you haven’t clearly defined the ultimate objective. I freely admit
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