- Stand Back and Deliver: Introduction to Key Principles
- Jun 22, 2009
- There is increasing pressure to deliver complex solutions in less time and to get it "right the first time." If we don't, we can completely miss our business value goals. The good news is that we can make sure that our brilliance results in things that work.
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- Structural Patterns for the Common Information Model
- May 18, 2015
- This chapter from Common Information Models for an Open, Analytical, and Agile World covers five software design patterns that illustrate different approaches to structuring your common information model.
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- Succeeding with Agile Software Development Using Scrum: Team Structure
- Dec 1, 2009
- In this chapter Mike Cohn looks at the importance of two critical factors to be considered when deciding how to structure Scrum teams: keeping teams small and orienting each team around the delivery of end-to-end user-visible functionality
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- Telling Stories and User Role Modeling
- May 21, 2004
- Agile software development is based on "telling stories." In this sample chapter, you'll learn about user roles, role modeling, user role maps, and personas. You'll also find out how taking these initial steps leads to better stories and better software.
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- Ten Practices for Applying Agile/Lean Software Management Principles to Other Knowledge Work
- Aug 11, 2009
- Dean Leffingwell suggests that other types of knowledge work can apply useful principles learned from Agile, Lean, Scrum, and XP software development.
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- Ten Things XP Teams Say
- Mar 22, 2002
- Communication relies on context as well as message; without this shared understanding, customers and programmers will miscommunicate. In this article, William C. Wake lists 10 common statements and tells us what they really mean.
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- Ten Years Of Agile: An Interview with Brian Marick
- Aug 3, 2011
- InformIT interviews Brian Marick, one of the original Agile Manifesto signatories, on the ten-year anniversary of its creation.
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- Ten Years of Agile: An Interview with Jon Kern
- Aug 3, 2011
- In this interview, Jon Kern discusses his part in the Agile Manifesto, the evolution of Agile, and what he’s up to now.
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- Ten Years Of Agile: An Interview with Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin
- Aug 3, 2011
- InformIT interviews Uncle Bob Martin, one of the original Agile Manifesto signatories, on the ten-year anniversary of its creation.
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- Ten Years of Agile: An Interview with Ward Cunningham
- Aug 3, 2011
- InformIT interviews Ward Cunningham, one of the original Agile Manifesto signatories, on the ten-year anniversary of its creation.
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- The Agile Revolution
- Jul 23, 2004
- Jim Highsmith introduces the concept of "Agile Product Management," a style of product development that concentrates on adaptive and exploratory, rather than anticipatory and prescriptive management.
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- The Big Picture of Agile Requirements
- Feb 9, 2011
- We are now at the point in time where a number of organizations have made the transition before us and some common patterns for lean and agile software process success have started to emerge -- a Big Picture. In this chapter, Dean Leffingwell offers a quick gestalt of this new, agile, leaner, and yet fully scalable software requirements model.
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- The Essence of Scrum: An Interview with Kenny Rubin
- Oct 4, 2012
- Matt Heusser talks with Kenny Rubin about his new book, Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process. Learn why Kenny thinks his book can help organizations to apply and sustain the Scrum process.
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- The Future of Agile Software Testing with xUnit And Beyond: An Interview with Gerard Meszaros
- Aug 12, 2009
- Gerard Meszaros discusses how unit testing is different than traditional, black-box testing; the limitations of test patterns; and how the programming language chosen affects testing.
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- Scrum Product Backlogs
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- Jul 25, 2012
- Kenneth S. Rubin discusses the crucial role of the product backlog in achieving fast, flexible value-delivery flow in the presence of uncertainty.
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- The Inefficiency of Multitasking: Why Your Smartphone Is a 'Weapon of Mass Distraction'
- Mar 20, 2015
- Scott Will, co-author of Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from "Waterfalling Backward", will convince you that multitasking simply wastes time and energy. Learn how to give up multitasking - and get more done.
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- The Jazz Process: Maintain Momentum
- Jun 29, 2010
- Adrian Cho talks about how you can create and maintain constructive momentum in your organization.
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- The Myth of No Documentation in Scrum Projects
- Mar 22, 2012
- Being agile does not equate to no documentation; it means doing timely, accurate, responsible documentation, as Mitch Lacey explains in this chapter from his book.
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- The Poppendiecks Speak: Two-Pizza Teams and the Software Development Experience
- Aug 24, 2009
- The authors of Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck, open up on topics ranging from stupid ideas for “eliminating waste” to the differences between Lean and Agile, to avoiding project failure. “We are not developing software,” Tom says. “We are doing something larger and software is just part of the solution.”
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- The Power, Value, and Virtues of Rumor
- Mar 22, 2002
- If you're really involved in any kind of high-tech work, especially on the leading edge, it's as important to stay tuned to the rumor mill as it is to follow the hard news. Author and columnist Ed Tittel uses Bill Gates' leaked security memo as an example of how the rumor mill works, and explores its hubs and outlets.
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