
If you're not careful, the length of your sprints may become a one size fits all solution wherein you try to shoehorn every development effort into a 2 week...
0 replies - 1827 views - 02/01/13 by Sean Mchugh in Articles

I think it's a safe bet to say that if you're reading this blog then there is a good chance that you're at least interested in Scrum. The problem is that for...
2 replies - 7222 views - 01/31/13 by Sean Mchugh in Articles

I read an interesting list of agile practices at Naresh Jain's blog: Explosion of Agile Practices. I think there is a lot of overlap in his list,...
0 replies - 2077 views - 01/31/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles

Originally authored by Joel Semeniuk, EVP at Telerik
All the way back in 1997, when I worked in the land of consulting, I established a practice...
0 replies - 3098 views - 01/30/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

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Last year I had a lightning talk at the ACE!Conference in Krakow (as you probably know, I’m a...
11 replies - 13948 views - 01/29/13 by Marc Löffler in Articles

When asked:”What’s the best thing I can do right now to improve my code quality” I always answer: code reviews. A code review is the best bug preventer...
0 replies - 4598 views - 01/28/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles

Sprint retrospectives are a key part of Scrum, which goes back to the lean roots of scrum with the focus on continous improvements. When I wrote this series on...
0 replies - 2344 views - 01/28/13 by Anders Abel in Articles

A scene from the Scrum 101 introductory video.
Scrum101
is a side project that I’ve been working on and off for over a year. It
started as some...
0 replies - 3669 views - 01/28/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

One of the challenges in a program is how you manage the checkins, especially if you have continuous integration. I am quite fond of continuous integration, no...
0 replies - 1157 views - 01/28/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Originally authored by Andrew Wagner
Whew! Episode 4 was a tough one to get recorded! I packed a lot of code in, and changed up my recording process along...
0 replies - 2599 views - 01/27/13 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

Metrics seems to be the part and parcel of any software development
project. In typical waterfall development projects, different types
of pre-defined
...
0 replies - 4227 views - 01/27/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

Originally authored by Andrew WagnerWelcome to episode 3! Last time we got as far as rendering a cool-looking spaceship to the screen. We also talked a little...
0 replies - 2039 views - 01/26/13 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

Originally authored by Andrew Wagner
Welcome back for episode 2! (Part 1 is posted here.) It's time to implement our first real feature. And with that,...
0 replies - 2176 views - 01/25/13 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

In the first part of the series on agile retrospectives, I mostly focused on the visual inventory as I went over the reports and charts we’ve been...
0 replies - 2103 views - 01/25/13 by Olga Kouzina in Articles

I know a lot of people who are transitioning to Agile or already following Agile development methods. Almost all of them are using something based on Scrum at...
0 replies - 4161 views - 01/24/13 by Jim Bird in Articles