Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
A big part of an organization’s becoming agile is finding the appropriate balance between anticipation and adaptation, as Jim Highsmith wrote in Agile Software Development Ecosystems. The following figure shows this balance along with activities and artifacts that influence the balance. When doing up-front analysis or desig (Read More)
Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean):
Due to popular demand, we have added another Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training to our listing of courses. There is an overwhelming need for well trained Product Owners, and we’re happy to take up the challenge. The next CSPO will happen on January 14 & 15 at our office in Newmarket, just north of Toronto.Du (Read More)
Scrum Breakfast:
If only Santa Clause would deliver software. Life would be so much easier. Unfortunately he doesn't, and delivering working software which meets business needs is still a difficult challenge. According to a just published survey by OOSE, 1/2 of all waterfall projects and even 1/3 of all agile projects do not succeed. How do (Read More)
Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean):
This summer, Berteig Consulting delivered an intensive OpenAgile training to Infonium, developers of enterprise application software for the Canadian healthcare industry. Based in Ottawa, Infonium collaborates with Canadian healthcare practitioners to develop innovative software solutions that solve issues that are spe (Read More)
Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum is now shipping. To celebrate, I will be giving a copy of the book to two readers of this blog. To win, enter as a comment to this post the one most valuable bit of advice you would give to a team that wanted to succeed with agile. I will pick the one bit of advice I l (Read More)
Scrum Breakfast:
Scrum Breakfast in November The Challenge: Raise your release tempo from 2 to 4 releases per year, with out changing the quantity of functionality. The applications remain complex. Modifications and renovations must still be possible. This was the challenge faced by Swisscom Wholesale AG. The Solution: Introduce Lean Softwa (Read More)
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We are looking for a Flash/ActionScript Engineer to collaborate with our User Experience Designers and Web Engineers to build an awesome educational platform.Required skills: - Proficiency with Flash and ActionScript - Real-time streaming video experience - User Interface design experience - Superior attention t (Read More)
All About Agile:
Many thanks to everyone who has bought my ebook - Agile Software Development Made Easy! so far. It's gone fairly well and that gives me all the extra encouragement I need to finish my paper book! It probably won't be ready until next year some time, but my intention is to produce a product that allows you to take away all (Read More)
What To Fix:
I'm a startup junkie. I use my free time to see if I can form teams to make something useful for folks. As part of that, I was talking to some guys this week about a new opportunity and one of them suggested that I write a mock-up UI to better demonstrate what we were talking about.So I thought I'd just whip out C# and make (Read More)
All About Agile:
Here is a really interesting post from John Scumniotales, one of the inventors of Scrum. Here he sets the record straight about whether or not Scrum was based on the concepts of Lean manufacturing, as pioneered by the likes of Toyota and Honda...Lean and Scrum - Chicken and EggWhilst this is clearly admirable for the inven (Read More)
Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
Chapter 1 of Succeeding with Agile summarizes of the published research on the benefits of adopting an agile process. I created a presentation based on that research.The presentation is available in Keynote and PowerPoint format and is released under a Creative Commons license with the hope that others will use and extend i (Read More)
All About Agile:
Here is an interesting article on InfoQ about the debate over agile methodologies, and which is best: Scrum, XP, either, both or neither?Personally I think they are entirely complimentary as they cover different aspects of software development. I find it useful to think of Scrum as an agile management methodology, whilst e (Read More)
All About Agile:
Hi all. I'm very grateful that so many blogs and web sites link to this blog. Many, of course, still link with the old name, 'All About Agile', as the link text. If that's you, would you mind updating the link text to 'Agile Software Development Made Easy!' so it reflects the new name?Many thanks in advance!Kelly.
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ScrumAlliance:
Recently, I happened to overhear and eventually involve myself in a conversation between two Project managers. They were discussing why Project managers have to define what yes and no means to the team after all, people have understood... (Read More)