- Documentation in Scrum Projects
- Feb 11, 2016
- Good agile teams are disciplined about their documentation but are also deliberate about how much they do and when. In this chapter from The Scrum Field Guide: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, 2nd Edition, we find a duo struggling to explain that while they won’t be fully documenting everything up front, they will actually be more fully documenting the entire project from beginning to end.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Organizational Culture Considerations with Agile
- Jul 24, 2014
- The organizational culture impacts to an Agile transformation are profound. Successful implementations need support from the team members, management, and executives to embrace new ways of completing work and collaborating. Every role in the organization will be affected in some way, and by understanding what is different and what drives success in each role, we are better positioned for the increase in productivity, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction that can be delivered by becoming Agile.
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- Preface to Introduction to Agile Methods
- Jul 16, 2014
- Sondra Ashmore and Kristin Runyan introduce their book, Introduction to Agile Methods, the place to start for students and professionals who want to understand Agile and become conversant with Agile values, principles, framework, and processes.
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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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- 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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- 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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- Scrum Product Backlogs
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Kenneth S. Rubin
- 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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- Want to Prove Agile Works? Practice Continuous Delivery!
- Oct 31, 2011
- Aaron Erickson, author of The Nomadic Developer, explains why Agile development teams must deliver and keep delivering on a regular schedule. The surest proof of your team's practicing Agile methodology correctly is that you continue delivering working product.
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- Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: Avoid Over- and Under-Design
- Aug 29, 2011
- How do you avoid over- or under-designing your code? As Ward Cunningham once said, "Take as much time as you need to make your code quality as high as it can be, but don't spend a second adding functionality that you don't need now!" This chapter covers this "mantra for development: write high-quality code, but don't write extra code.
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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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- Barriers to Scrum Adoption
- Jun 27, 2011
- Scrum sounds great, but it sure seems to go wrong a lot. Matt Heusser discusses obstacles and how to go over them or around them, and sometimes just blow them up.
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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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- Leading Agile Developers: The Seven Levels of Authority (Part 2)
- Feb 3, 2011
- For managers to make the best use of self-organization in their business, they need to distribute control and delegate their authority. In this article, Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, describes the seven levels of authority and the “authority board” managers can use to delegate control to self-organizing teams.
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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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- Leading Agile Developers: The Seven Levels of Authority (Part 1)
- Jan 26, 2011
- For managers to make the best use of self-organization in their business, they need to distribute control and delegate their authority. In this article, Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, describes the scientific reason to empowering people in the first of his two-part series.
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- Software Verification and Validation in High Assurance Agile Development: Ground Rules
- Dec 21, 2010
- How do you develop high quality software in regulated (and other high assurance, high economic cost of failure) environments in an agile manner? Dean Leffingwell explores the ground rules.
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