- The Principles of Extreme Programming
- Apr 5, 2002
- The XP solution is simple: Stay flexible, do the Zen thing, and be like water, adjusting your course as required. The authors of A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming explain these and other principles behind extreme programming.
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- The Project Manager’s Personal Bridge to Agility
- Aug 4, 2008
- Moving to Agile project management is scary. Stacia Broderick eases the transition.
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- The Purpose of Agile Planning
- Aug 19, 2009
- If estimating and planning are difficult, and if it’s impossible to get an accurate estimate until so late in a project, why do it at all?
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- The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility: Scope Management
- May 21, 2008
- Agile project management can help you plan for and handle changes in a project's scope.
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- The Tao of Extreme Programming
- Oct 5, 2001
- XP pursues a kind of Tai Chi of development, a martial art of interlocking, rhythmic practices intended to maintain open communication, opportunistic scheduling, and close partnership between customers and developers.
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- Tips for Team Design in Agile IT Organizations
- Jul 2, 2015
- This chapter from Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery describes how various multiteam configurations, including the matrix organization, reduce organizational agility and how having fewer outcome-oriented, cross-functional teams can help.
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- Top Ten Organizational Impediments to Large-Scale Agile Adoption
- Aug 13, 2009
- Craig Larman and Bas Vodde asked agile development experts working in and with large companies about the most challenging organizational impediments. Find out what they said.
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- Tuning Agile to Your Business Objectives
- Dec 5, 2012
- To successfully create the significant breakthroughs in your development effectiveness that are possible with agile, it has to be aligned with why you want to do it in the first place and what you need to achieve from it. The authors of A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development explain how to tune agile to your business objectives.
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- Two Oversimplified, Yet Effective Agile Estimating Models?
- Nov 30, 2007
- Now that your team uses agile, how can you estimate how much work you can do in an iteration?
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- Unleashing Talent in an Agile Culture: Leading through Trust and Ownership
- Feb 28, 2014
- No one person can know everything and needs to rely on the talents of others to be successful in a role, on a project, or in the marketplace. With the increasing pace of change, trusting each other—and unleashing talent—is critical.
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- Upgrade Your IT Using Agile IT Organization Design
- Aug 10, 2015
- Sriram Narayan, author of Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery, describes a holistic approach to improving organizational agility through deliberate organization design based on three overarching principles. This operating model scales Agile using a modern scale-out mindset rather than a conventional scale-up mindset.
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- Use Cases: Defining Scope
- Mar 22, 2002
- Alistair Cockburn defines scope and talks about using the four work products that bind the system's scope: vision statement, design scope drawing, in/out list, and actor-goal list.
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- Using Acceptance Tests in Extreme Programming
- Mar 30, 2001
- XP values feedback, and there is no more important feedback than early information on how well the program works. With acceptance tests, the sooner we catch the mistake, the sooner we can make the program work.
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- Using Models to Help Plan Tests in Agile Projects
- Oct 16, 2014
- This chapter from More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team looks at some foundations of agile test planning and how they are evolving.
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- Video: Dean Leffingwell on the Value of Using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- May 6, 2015
- Dean Leffingwell, founder and CEO of Scaled Agile, Inc., discusses his new video, "Leading Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) LiveLessons," results that enterprises who adopt SAFe are seeing, the must-have SAFe practices, and the keys to successful enterprise adoption of SAFe.
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- Video: Introduction to Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) LiveLessons
- Apr 23, 2015
- In this excerpt from Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) LiveLessons, Dean Leffingwell introduces the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its underlying principles of lean thinking, agile development, and product development flow.
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- Video: Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework): Organize an Agile Release Train
- Apr 28, 2015
- In this excerpt from Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) LiveLessons (Video Training), Dean Leffingwell discusses implementing the agile release train, which is the primary value delivery vehicle inside the scaled agile framework.
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- Video: Mastering the Requirements Process: The Brown Cow Model
- Aug 24, 2015
- Suzanne Robertson, co-author with James Robertson of Requirements: The Masterclass LiveLessons--Traditional, Agile, Outsourcing (Video Training), discusses the Brown Cow model in the requirements process, which helps you take into account different points of view of the same problem so you can discover and communicate requirements.
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- Video: Scrum Fundamentals and Advanced Training: Mapping User Stories to Test Cases
- Jan 27, 2015
- Tommy Norman, author of Scrum Fundamentals and Advanced LiveLessons (Video Training), talks about the process between the user story and test, and starting with the test in mind.
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- Video: The Perfectly-Formed Requirement
- Aug 31, 2015
- James Robertson, co-author with Suzanne Robertson of "Requirements: The Masterclass LiveLessons--Traditional, Agile, Outsourcing (Video Training)," discusses the perfectly-formed requirement, which should be unambiguous and testable. James discusses the Snow Card, focusing on the requirement, rationale, fit criterion, and supporting materials.
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