- Everybody’s Doing Agile--Why Can’t We?
- Aug 8, 2011
- Aaron Erickson suggests that it would be wise to think, very candidly, whether Agile is really something that your company can achieve.
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- Exploratory Testing on Agile Teams
- Nov 18, 2005
- Jonathan Kohl relates an intriguing experience with a slippery bug that convinced his team of the value of exploratory testing: simultaneous test design, execution, and learning.
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- Extreme Programming and the Economics of Software Development
- Mar 22, 2002
- Kent Beck shows you how to maximize the economic value of a software project by paying attention to cash flows, interest rates, and project mortality, from his book Extreme Programming Explained.
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- Extreme Programming for the Customer, Programmer, Manager: What's a Typical Day
- Mar 22, 2002
- In this chapter from his book, Extreme Programming Explored, William Wake gives a practical, you-are-there glimpse into what happens in a typical day during an XP iteration from the perspective of customer, programmer, and manager.
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- Extreme Programming, 10 Years Later
- Aug 25, 2009
- In the decade since the inception of XP, a lot has happened in the development world. Chet Hendrickson talks about the most interesting of these changes.
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- Extreme Programming: Taming the Resistance
- Nov 2, 2001
- If you think your own fear and ignorance are the only obstacles you'll face when starting XP, think again. That is just the beginning ...
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- Feature-Driven Development and Extreme Programming
- Mar 22, 2002
- Superficial similarities between Feature-Driven Development (FDD) and Extreme Programming (XP) hide a number of very important differences between the two processes. This article provides a short comparison of FDD and XP.
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- Feature-Driven Development: Best Practices
- Mar 22, 2002
- Steve Palmer explains the best practices for Feature-Driven Development.
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- Five Phases of Disillusionment in Pre-Agile Waterfall Development
- Aug 25, 2009
- In an enterprise employing a waterfall development methodology, the product manager's mindset undergoes a predictable shift of perspective, says Dean Leffingwel. He describes the five stages of downward spiral.
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- Four Tips for Integrating Quality Assurance with Scrum
- Feb 17, 2014
- These four tips for integrating Quality Assurance practices into your Scrum process will support the underlying Agile value. Principles from the Agile Manifesto are applied in ways that affect your approach to software quality. You will learn how to address impediments to adopting those principles and why the approach of testing software as you go, not waiting until the very end of your Sprints, not only builds in better quality but promotes a deeper understanding of the entire application for the entire Scrum Team. Discover the common obstacles involved with Agile adoptions, and learn to apply temporary fixes in your Quality Assurance processes along the way, as long as your team learns from each experience and continually improves.
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- Get Ready for Scrum!
- Nov 9, 2001
- This article describes a case study covering a complete implementation of the agile computing methodology, Scrum.
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- Help Me Hire Your Students! Why Companies Need Universities to Teach Agile Development
- Jul 14, 2014
- Sondra Ashmore, co-author with Kristin Runyan of Introduction to Agile Methods, discusses how she came to discover the need for a university course curriculum on Agile software development. As Agile becomes more widely adopted in business, new employees will be expected to know Agile basics. Educational institutions have to start training those future hires in the Agile skills they'll need in the work force after graduation.
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- How “Go To” People Help Make Agile Software Development Work (and How You Can Become One)
- Nov 12, 2013
- Leslie Ekas explains who "go to" people are (you know them already—the ones you contact first to find out what's going on) and why they are particularly beneficial for teams who plan on adopting agile.
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- How Agile Testing Has Evolved
- Dec 16, 2014
- Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, authors of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, describe how agile has grown rapidly to improve the work (and lives) of developers worldwide. From its inception as a development concept that sometimes induced fear and promoted confusion, agile has risen and deepened to become a business approach in which everyone can succeed together: customers, programmers, testers, and anyone else involved in delivering business value.
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- How to Grow Structure
- Jan 27, 2011
- This chapter gives you an overview of adaptive principles in organizational design and some ideas on the ways to grow a structure in your own organization.
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- How to Make Fearless Change in Your Organization
- Aug 26, 2009
- Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising offer additional patterns for implementing change in organizations, building on the patterns presented in their book, Fearless Change.
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- Improving Software Economics, Part 6 of 7: Achieving 'Agility at Scale': Top 10 Principles of Agile Software Delivery
- Feb 17, 2010
- Continuing his series of 'top 10' lists, Walker Royce discusses the modern software development process in the Agile enterprise.
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- Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide
- Apr 13, 2011
- Most people’s communication skills could use significant improvement. Adopting just a few of the tips from this chapter may help you significantly enhance the interactions you engage in on your project.
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- Integrating XP into Your Existing Software Workshop
- Mar 22, 2002
- When you're ready to implement XP practices, where do you start? Who needs to be won over? What kind of hurdles can you expect? Stewart Baird answers these questions in this article that explains how to get XP rolling in your shop.
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- Internationally Agile
- Mar 15, 2002
- Matt Simons presents the case for offshore agile development, describing problems and benefits of agile approaches in this somewhat complicated situation.
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