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Sprint Lengths and Long Releases

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

5 Big Issues When Scaling Scrum

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

List of Agile Practices

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

My Predictions for Agile in 2013

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

7 Agile Myths

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelransburg/3855808163/ 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

Re-Pair Programming

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

How we do Sprint Retrospectives

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

Scrum 101 … an Intensive Online Introduction to Scrum

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

Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program

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

Iterative Software Development, Part 4

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

5 Tips on How to Use Metrics in an Agile Project

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

Iterative Software Development, Part 3

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

Iterative Software Development, Part 2

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

Retrospectives, Part 2: In a Sentimental Mood

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

Design Doesn't Emerge from Code

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