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10 Things You Can do to Better Lead Your Agile Team

Jonathan Rasmusson - 10 things you can do to better lead your agile team from NDCOslo on Vimeo. Agile leadership is different. Agile teams don’t like to be...

0 replies - 7485 views - 03/15/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Nonfunctional Requirements

I don’t know about you, but every time I read the word “nonfunctional”, I feel a yawn coming on, and I start to look for something else to do. While...

1 replies - 3638 views - 03/15/13 by Roman Pichler in Articles

Motivation Misfires

Many managers ask me, “How can I motivate my team?” I’ve certainly seen many efforts to motivate teams.  Contests, prizes, pep talks, badges,...

1 replies - 2502 views - 03/15/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Simulating a Project by Resampling Velocity

I normally write about a new agile project management technique only after I’ve used it for a couple of years and found it successful in a couple of...

0 replies - 2344 views - 03/14/13 by Mike Cohn in Articles

Conway's Law v. Software Architecture

I've written about Conway's Law before (Return to Conway’s Law (2006) and a Focus Group I ran at EuroPLoP “What do we think of Conway’s Law Now?”)...

2 replies - 5547 views - 03/14/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

The 60 Percent Rule

For a shared identity to work, it is useful to know who is, and who is not, part of the group. This is sometimes quite clear, but quite often it isn’t....

0 replies - 2173 views - 03/14/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

Agile in the Age of Hyperspecialization

Starting the start of the industrial revolution in 18th century, there has been a trend of increasing specialization. Rather than workers being involved in...

0 replies - 2225 views - 03/13/13 by Mike Cohn in Articles

Fragmented Projects and Overcommitted People

In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more articles of this kind printed in the major...

3 replies - 2547 views - 03/13/13 by Christian Grobmeier in Articles

Compromises on Quality

Far too often I hear managers say, “Just get it out the door.” I understand the perspective. We work in a world of constraints and the business needs to...

0 replies - 1669 views - 03/13/13 by David Bernstein in Articles

That’s Not Agile!?

Agile at the Enterprise Level is not about the two-week inspect and adapt cycle… it’s about small batches and flow. You may have noticed that...

0 replies - 1499 views - 03/13/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

7 Reasons Why You Should Tackle Hard Problems Last

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 - 4093 views - 03/12/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Testing Antipattern: Release Testing

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 - 2731 views - 03/12/13 by Steve Smith in Articles

The Real Enemy: Testers That Can't Program & Programmers That Can't Test

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 - 1723 views - 03/12/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles

It’s the System, Not (and?) the People

 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 - 1989 views - 03/11/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles

Are Agile Plans Better Because They Are Feature-Based?

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 - 2631 views - 03/11/13 by Jim Bird in Articles