I always hear the advice that we should tackle hard problems first.
It seems like pretty legitimate advice, and many of the reasons for saying so make sense,...
10 replies - 4300 views - 03/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
Release testing is a flawed strategy that discourages product quality
In many organisations, an agile product team will contain co-located developers and...
0 replies - 2834 views - 03/12/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
Lior Friedman asked whether a tester should know how to program or become obsolete. Lanette Creamer said the same fate awaits programmers who can’t test....
0 replies - 1825 views - 03/12/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
I live and work with two phrases in my head that are important to me:
“It’s the system, not the people” – Deming
And,...
0 replies - 2044 views - 03/11/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn quotes Jim Highsmith on why Agile projects are better:
“One of the things I keep telling people is that agile...
0 replies - 2746 views - 03/11/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
In a nice tie-in to my previous assertion that the root cause of Flaccid Scrums is a lack of XP-like focus upon technical quality, Allan Kelly has written two...
0 replies - 1740 views - 03/11/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
All new features at eBay Europe are developed using SCRUM. One key success factor for those projects is to have a reliable end-to-end test automation safety...
0 replies - 2205 views - 03/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
I love it when my readers challenge and question me. Thank you, Sam and Paulo for asking the equivalent of “Huh?” for Refactoring and Redesign are...
2 replies - 2718 views - 03/09/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
The product backlog is an important tool: It lists ideas, requirements, and new insights. But is it always the right tool to use? This post discusses the...
0 replies - 4643 views - 03/08/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles
Agile development is a movement that started 11 years ago and now is a
commonplace discussion for software development teams. Prior to the
signing of the...
2 replies - 3951 views - 03/07/13 by William Martinez in Articles
Running into a common problem, again—deliver fast and maintain quality—a team of developers and I discussed how we might create visibility around this...
1 replies - 1164 views - 03/07/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles
Jeff Patton
recently reminded me of two simple strategies for software development
that I’ve talked about from time to time—Build Less Software...
1 replies - 2128 views - 03/07/13 by Jim Highsmith in Articles
Curator's Note: Jurgen Appelo recently listed some of his best blog posts over the long history of his outstanding Agile blog, which DZone is honored to...
2 replies - 8265 views - 03/06/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
In Organizing an Agile Program: Part 1, Introduction, I discussed the difference between hierarchies and networks. I used Scrum of Scrums as an example. It...
0 replies - 837 views - 03/06/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
In continuation of my earlier blog post on ‘Does Agile Kill Innovation?’, I had a great time moderating the panel discussion at Agile India 2013 with...
0 replies - 1387 views - 03/06/13 by Tathagat Varma in Articles
