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On Agile Management: An Interview with Jurgen Appelo By Matthew Heusser, Jurgen Appelo Nov 29, 2010 Is there a role for management in Agile organizations? Matt Heusser interviewed Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0, to find out.

Coaching Agile Teams: Expect High Performance By Lyssa Adkins Jun 3, 2010 Setting high performance as your baseline expectation and giving teams a way to achieve it play directly into the powerful motivators of autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Thus invigorated, everyone wins. Lyssa Adkins shows you how to create a culture of high performance in your Agile teams.

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Understanding the Product Owner Role By Roman Pichler Mar 24, 2010 A new product is launched with great expectations—and bombs. What went wrong? There was no single person responsible for leading the effort to create a winning product—a product owner. This chapter explores the role of the product owner. It explains the role's authority and responsibility as well as how the role should be applied.

Succeeding with Agile Software Development Using Scrum: Team Structure By Mike Cohn 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

Agile Requirements by Collaboration: Making Smart Choices About What and When to Build By Ellen Gottesdiener Aug 24, 2009 How do you make smart choices about what to build, and when, on an Agile team that values interaction and customer collaboration? Ellen Gottesdiener describes incorporating Agile requirements modeling into collaborative planning workshops.

An Agile Approach to Estimating and Planning By Mike Cohn Aug 20, 2009 With the four value statements of the Agile Manifesto in mind, Mike Cohn considers what it means to have an agile approach to a project, as well as what it means to have an agile approach to estimating and planning.

Master of Scrum: An Interview with Mike Cohn By Matthew Heusser, Mike Cohn Aug 19, 2009 Mike Cohn reveals his experiences with Scrum transitions, the challenges of estimating software project duration and scope, Agile project management, and planning in collaborative environments - all while standing on one foot. Or, at least, he tries.

The Purpose of Agile Planning By Mike Cohn 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?

Agile Project Management: Adapting over Conforming By Jim Highsmith Aug 17, 2009 Jim Highsmith explains that developing great products requires exploration, not tracking against a plan. Have the courage to explore into the unknown and the humility to recognize mistakes and adapt to the situation. That's Agile Project Management.

Interview with Jim Highsmith By Israel Gat, Jim Highsmith Aug 17, 2009 Israel Gat talks with Jim Highsmith, author of Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Second Edition, about why he wrote a new edition of the book, approaches to Agile development, Agile adoption, risk-mitigation strategies, and more.

What Is Agile Testing, Anyway? By Janet Gregory, Lisa Crispin Jan 19, 2009 In this chapter, the authors explain their view of agile, which reflects the Agile Manifesto and general principles and values shared by different agile methods.

The Project Manager’s Personal Bridge to Agility By Stacia Broderick Aug 4, 2008 Moving to Agile project management is scary. Stacia Broderick eases the transition.

The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility: Scope Management By Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick May 21, 2008 Agile project management can help you plan for and handle changes in a project's scope.

Exploratory Testing on Agile Teams By Jonathan Kohl 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.

Advantages of User Stories for Requirements By Mike Cohn Oct 8, 2004 At the surface, user stories appear to have much in common with use cases and traditional requirements statements. However, there are many subtle differences among them and many advantages to user stories, especially for agile development projects.

Telling Stories and User Role Modeling By Mike Cohn 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.

Keys to Successful Venture Capital Investing: Due Diligence By David Gladstone, Laura Gladstone Dec 23, 2003 This chapter starts the beginning of what venture capitalists (VCs) call the due diligence process. That is, it describes the steps that an investor should take in researching an investment opportunity. This is a detailed process that takes weeks—sometimes months—of work. It begins when an investor is confronted with a business proposal and must decide whether the idea warrants further investigation.

Keeping the Code Clean By Robert C. Martin Sep 19, 2003 Is your kitchen a wreck? Your code probably is, too. "Uncle Bob" Martin explains why it's a bad idea to leave last week's "code spaghetti" drying on the dishes for cleanup later.

Scrum with XP By Kane Mar, Ken Schwaber Mar 22, 2002 Ken Schwaber and Kane Mar argue that Scrum can be combined with XP engineering practices to generate a significant impact on the productivity of a project team. This article details a project in which this theory was put to work successfully.

Use Cases: Defining Scope By Alistair Cockburn 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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