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Game of Thrones: An Epic of Fire-Breathing Dragons, Cunning Chieftans and... Agile?
by Jorgen Hesselberg
Game of Thrones, the epic series on HBO, is returning for a third season on Sunday. While you're preparing yourself for a healthy dose of beheadings, scheming and fire-breathing dragons it's impossible not to notice the implicit messages conveyed by the author George R. R. Martin: underneath the drama and theatrics, Game of Thrones is fundamentally a story of how an Agile mindset crushes deterministic, waterfall-based management thinking. Think it's a stretch? Let's have a look at the Agile values and see how they relate...
Agile Teams and Health Checks
by Saji Rajasekharan
If you are a Scrum Master , Development Manager, Product Owner or an IT Stakeholder, you have been asked about your team’s performance. Agile was probably adopted to solve all the delivery problems your IT group was facing, or perhaps it was meant to be a silver bullet to meet the milestones demanded by the product/business team. Or maybe it was a way to go back to your collaborative roots when the company was smaller and seemed more nimble to...
The House of Agile or Just Another Flea Market?
by Agile Development Editorial
In a few months, many people from the Agile community will make their annual pilgrimage to the Agile Alliance Conference to bask in the abundance of ideas and understandings that such a large and vibrant conference experience can provide. Attendees will drink in every moment of every presentation in a state of awe, and many more will follow along on Twitter or eagerly await the release of Tom Poppendieck’s pictures so they can become a part of the latest Agile...
Selecting The Best Automated Test Tools For Agile Environment
by Matthew House
These days strict schedules and budgets simply don't allow for too much of manual testing and an automated testing tool of some kind is essential to getting the job done right. Here are few tips to keep in mind:There should be support for changing requirements The tool must be able to accommodate improving design Rapid test script development and modification must be possible Support for scenarios rather than specific inputs
When you think about it, continuous improvement should not be that hard. So why do so few companies actually do it?
by Agile Development Editorial
Organizations that continuously improve their activities and find smarter and better ways to conduct business are the real game changers. They've figured out that the key to constant improvement is having a continuous improvement culture. I know this might sound strange, but it’s not complex to start working on building a continuous improvement culture. It is, however, very hard to sustain this culture as it requires continuous commitment in time, money and people.
How to Effectively Capture a Defect in Agile environment
by Matthew House
In every organization, defect tracking is a fundamental and critical part of product lifecycle. How to comprehensively and effectively capture information about a defect is a must know for every product owner, stakeholder, or any other person dealing with product development.By implementing the defect-tracking best practices outlined in this article, teams will be in position to maximize overall defect resolution lifecycle while developing the agility necessary to overcome tomorrow’s challenges.
Key Characteristics Of A Great Agile Coach
by Jeff Albrecht
In my opinion, too often, people define coaching inappropriately. They use it to mean consulting or mentoring. But that isn't quite right. Great coach should have deep inner qualities that other leaders just don’t have. Real coaching requires some key skills that so-called teachers or mentors are lacking. Some characteristics that every great Agile coach should have are intuition, inner stillness, trust, practical interviewing experience, patience, courage...
For higher productivity should we go even smaller?
by Agile Development Editorial
There is something to be said about breaking up a big problem into smaller ones and then having small and focused teams resolve one small problem at a time. Agile has embraced this aspect and time and time again we have experienced how small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams. The oft cited “truism” is that Agile teams should have 7 people plus or minus 2. Perhaps it is time to review this as the more time we spend looking...
Cost of Low Cost
by Agile Development Editorial
When is the last time you’ve encountered a high performing offshore Agile team? We guess it has probably been a while. Okay, how about this question - would you offshore your Agile software development if the expense came out of your pocket? We will guess no again. There is a cost to offshoring Agile software development; it is quite a bit higher than advertised and may not be a cultural fit for many offshore teams.Sure, we are aware of the published research...
Addressing complaints about lack of documentation
by Alex
One of the objections I hear from managers about Agile is the lack of documentation that comes along with it, especially the lack of documented code. In summary, their concern is that the code will become hard to maintain by developers (aside from the one who wrote the code) just because there is not enough documentation about it. Yes,they are aware that tests should take place of the documentation but they also know in practice the code is not 100% covered...
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