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Sprint Reviews in Practice

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance   - Hamlet Act 1,...

0 replies - 25 views - 05/22/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

The Appreciation Gap

Authors note: A recent blog post on Bob Sutton’s Work Matters reminded me of this little piece I wrote a while ago. A simple thank you can make a...

0 replies - 9 views - 05/22/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Cognitive Endurance Basics for Software Developers

A few weeks ago Michael published a post called Product Software Development Is a Marathon. The message of this post is: if you want to come up with a decent...

0 replies - 1 views - 05/22/13 by Olga Kouzina in Articles

Devs in the Ditch

I gave a talk at Devs in the ‘Ditch last week when I was in London. I posted the slides on slideshare: Overcoming Three Pitfalls of Transitioning to...

0 replies - 1036 views - 05/22/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Key Ingredient for Success: Systems Thinking

Our behavior is always a reaction to the system around us. Let us take an example of an Agile team working  on a project, and as we know its behavior...

0 replies - 1175 views - 05/22/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

11 Things to Remember About People in Middle Management Roles

It’s easy to be critical of managers.  A few things to remember. 0. Most people in management roles want to do a good job, but may not know what to do...

0 replies - 921 views - 05/21/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Context Matters: Premature Optimization or Habits From Long Ago?

I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants started talking about...

0 replies - 1499 views - 05/21/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Absolute Estimating vs. Relative Estimating

I’ve started work on some new videos and this time it’s all about Agile Estimating, Planning and Contracts. This is the obvious next step having completed...

0 replies - 1877 views - 05/19/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

Taking One for the Team...the Refactoring of Failure

Recently I've been coaching a large organization through an agile transition. I've introduced Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban ways of working to about a dozen teams...

0 replies - 1182 views - 05/16/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

How Change Initiatives Damage Organizations and Fail

A simple (and misunderstood) way people think of their change initiative like this: Their organization is just sitting there, ready to change in wonderful...

0 replies - 1398 views - 05/16/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles

Estimates in Software Development. New Frontiers.

There’s more and more buzz around estimates and #noestimates in software development. People like to write bold statements and go extreme about things in...

0 replies - 2589 views - 05/16/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles

Gambling in Software

I want to tell you about a meeting we had a few days ago. It reminded me of “The Jack Story” (which was part of an old stage routine of Danny Thomas many...

0 replies - 899 views - 05/15/13 by Nadav Azaria in Articles

10 Things Executives Need to Know About Agile

Slide deck with the top 10 things executives need to know about Agile: 10 things executives need to know about agile from Michael Sahota Here’s...

0 replies - 2971 views - 05/15/13 by Michael Sahota in Articles

5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project FAIL

Far too many Agile development projects fail. It is hard to even accurately measure the number of failures because so many software development projects end up...

0 replies - 5572 views - 05/14/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Apologetic Agile Development

Having lived through numerous attempts to build software embracing the concepts behind the agile manifesto, I feel there are three large categories folks fall...

0 replies - 3807 views - 05/14/13 by Michael Mainguy in Articles