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Dec 08

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Sep 26

[Agile developers seek job] Senior Microsoft .Net developer (Windows Azure, MVC) is available to hire

Valeria Kokina Posted by: Valeria Kokina in Subscriptions | Comment (1)
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Senior Microsoft .Net developer (Windows Azure, MVC) is available.

Hire this developer at outsourcing prices and manage him remotely like your in-house staff with Ainstainer Group.

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Sep 22

ScrumMaster Role and Capacity

Emil Schnabel Posted by: Emil Schnabel in Subscriptions | Comment (0)
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ScrumMaster Role and Activities

Introduction

I have been contemplating the role and capacity of the ScrumMaster for some time now and wanted to pen something down, as I believe this understanding is needed now in the Agile community.

It seems that there are a lot of confusion and misconceptions on the activities and capacity of this specific and important Scrum role in the industry. This article will try to alleviate some of these concerns.

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Sep 19

cPrime’s Agile Consulting Services hits major milestones.

cPrime Posted by: cPrime in MyBlog | Comment (0)

cPrime Inc., a project management and Agile services company, expands their agile consulting & coaching services and reaches new industries in the Bay Area.

Foster City, CA. July 28th 2011 – cPrime, a project management and agile services company hits new milestones with the development of their Agile coaching and consulting services. This year, cPrime has doubled the number of clients they are working with on Agile projects. The main reason for the swift development is due to their private offering of the Enterprise Agile Development with Scrum (EAD) course. Kevin Thompson, a cPrime senior Agile coach, has been working to develop Agile training materials and offerings such as the EAD course, while he works hands-on with organizations attempting to make the transition to Agile development.

cPrime has coached over 30 organizations in Agile development methodology in the past two years in over 10 different industries. Their success with these organizations comes from the hands on, practical knowledge they teach their clients. Many companies attempt to transition to the Agile methodology, but often do not succeed. To learn the scrum processes successfully & make scrum work in an organization, especially at a large scale, organizations need the hands on guidance from expert agile coaches. Agile coaches can transition teams by mentoring them through complicated processes like meetings, sprints, estimation, etc. that may seem foreign to Project Managers familiar with traditional plan-driven processes such as Waterfall. Coaches also can advise executives and stakeholders on what changes to expect with the new Agile processes.

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Sep 09

Contribute and communicate

Juliette Marsh Posted by: Juliette Marsh in MyBlog | Comment (1)
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Contribute and communicate
One of the most difficult things to accomplish in a lean software development environment is encouraging the team to contribute and communicate.  I don’t mean the physical work, everyone does their part with the actual “work”.  I am referring to the brain storming, the thinking “outside of the box”. All the other parts that come before the coding begins.  The pieces of the “Team” puzzle.

In many dated development cycles input from individuals is not something that is encouraged.  It was each man to himself.  Attempting to transition a team to become involved to the degree that is called for can become a challenge.  

As a product owner I could not accomplish any of what I do without my team.  Communication between product owner (coach? leader?) and the rest of the team is crucial.  I need them to help me to understand what they are talking about and they need me to interpret and filter what the stakeholders want and need.  

Asking questions, encouraging them to give THEIR ideas is the first step.  
  • How would you solve this problem?  
  • What do you think we should do?  
  • Why would you do it this way?  
  • Why wouldn’t you do it that way?  
  • What value will this bring the end user?
When we sit down together to plan a new piece of functionality or to talk through a bug that we need to fix it takes a good bit of coaxing to get everyone to share their ideas.  This becomes more of an issue in a lean environment where the teams are encouraged to be involved.

By allowing each person to be an individual; thinking for themselves, making their own decisions, acting on these thoughts, with conviction and confidence; we can add credence to the “definition” of Lean.    

This leads me to something that I have read and heard numerous times from Jim Benson.  Jim often talks about a development team being like a football team.  Everything that one person does affects everyone else on the team.  Lean software development is a much more mature and involved process than waterfall, for example.  The flexibility of lean takes maturity and cultivation to make the best use of the benefits that come with it.  

By asking the right questions, having the patience to wait for an answer and respecting the other people on the team to allow them the time to sort through the question on their own is the first step in making this transition successful.  Contributing and communicating must occur through out the entire development cycle, from planning to release.  

Finding the best way to encourage this contribution from every member of your team is, in my opinion, THE most difficult hurdle of the entire process.  We each bring something unique and different to the group.  Acknowledging these traits and honing in on them is a way to think lean.  Thinking lean will allow you to develop lean, and deliver quality software.

 

Aug 31

Get your customers on Board - Continuous feedback with demos

Papapetrou Patroklos Posted by: Papapetrou Patroklos in Subscriptions | Comment (0)
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Introduction
Most of us,during the development of a software system, have probably received some major changes requests from customers near the end of the project. Even worse, during a demo session, the end users as soon as see (for the first time) the final(?) product jump out of the window screaming and cursing you and your team:”This is not what I wanted. I don’t like it. Get it back and bring me something else”. What exactly is this “something else”? No one is able to explain it and at this point of the project being under budget/time pressures it is something extremely difficult to clarify. With a simple (greek) word: A CATASTROPHE. If you find your self smiling at this moment then at some time in the past you have been in such a position and of course, for that we usually blame this unsatisfied and indecisive creature that we call “the customer”. No matter how many times you have tried to “freeze” the requirements in the early stages of the project either because you had a fixed-price contract, or because “we need to know in advance what we are going to develop”, the only thing you achieve is to “lose” the customer from the beginning of the project and obviously, this is not what you would expect. So, are we really unprotected against to our customers? Of course not. Our purpose is, or at least should be, the delivery of a system that covers as many as possible, and always within budget, customer business needs. One of the agile practices I like and I believe that help towards this aim is the one i simply present (for agile dummies) in this blog.

Some simple rules and guidelines

Frequent demos for immediate feedback are extremely imporant and come to fill the gap between the development team (what is implemented) and end users (what they really want from the system).The fact that from the early stages of the project, the customer  participate at regular intervals in such meetings, ensure that critical requirement changes and misunderstandings are identified as soon as possible. Thus the implementation cost is far lower than the scenario where the same change is “discovered” much later when the project would be in advance.As for each agile practice, however, frequent demos should follow some rules and guidelines in order to get the maximum of the. The following brief instructions are  mainly focusing to projects where there is a single customer.

  • Since the beginning of the project, therefore, describe in details the practice you intend to follow and try to explain its return of investment. Make clear that these demos have a single purpose. To understand early in the project what are the actual needs of end users and get as soon as possible feedback on the track you follow, so if something is extremely wrong you have adequate time to fix it.
  • If there is some kind of dissatisfaction about the large number of releases, it is good to clarify that these are not real releases, but internal demos, which will be not available to all users. There are nevertheless valuable for the early diagnosis of requirements misunderstandings.
  • Respect customers’ free time. Try to find an approach that will make everyone happy. If the customer can not attend a demo at the end of each iteration (for example every two or three weeks) try to make it at the end of each month. This, IMHO, is the maximum allowed period between two demos.
  • Try to ensure that you really have to show something. New features, modified or redesigned screens are essential in a demo and should work with no problems. If the customer is frustrated by a non-working demo, then it is most likely that he loses confidence in the development team and distrusts any attempt for future meetings.
  • The demo should be done only by development-team members so that he/she will show the customer features that need his/her attention and feedback. Do not let the customer “play” with the release. Politely remind him the purpose of this meeting and that the demo version of the system is not suitable yet for beta testing.
  • Remember to make clear before each demo that the product/system is still under development and that this is NOT what the end users will get. Try to focus on core and critical business requirements so you can get important feedback, but this does not mean that you ignore proposals for the usability, the user interface, etc.

Product vs Project

What happens though, when we do not have a single customer, but our product is targeting thousands of customers? Obviously, the frequent demo aproach seems to be unrealistic or it may be applied to a limited extent. For that reason, I propose below a couple of alternative actions that will replace this practice aiming at the same results (get early feedback).
  • Try to create videos that demonstrate the new feature of the upcoming release- several days before its official announcement. Something like a pre-release announcement.The main advantage of this approach is that with minimum cost, we can briefly show (the duration of the video should not exceed 2-3 minutes), the core features for that we would like to get feedback and comments from our customers, before the new version is actually released
  • Try to provide a try-it-live demo site where customers (existing and potential) are allowed to test the new upcoming version (Beta versions, Release Candidate versions) and send with a predefined way comments and feedback.
  • Try to gather some of the customers (if they are located in some or nearby places) or a webinar for long distance-customers and perform a demo session instead. Although this will not have the same results as if you would showing the product in a single customer, but you may get some important feedback.
Benefits
Some of the practice’s benefits are summarized right below:
  • Early detection of misunderstood requirements.
  • Correction of the project “path” at a very low cost.
  • Continuous communication with the customer.
  • Increase confidence between the development team and end users.
  • Creative collaboration to achieve the same purpose (meaningful and working product)
  • Most critical and core features are delivered first and complete without having to reach at the latest phases of the project.
Probably the above list is not completed, so if you have some more ideas (remember this post is for agile beginners and not experienced users) feel free to post your comments.
Aug 29

What criteria do you use when choosing Agile Tool? [I need your answer]

Valeria Kokina Posted by: Valeria Kokina in Subscriptions | Comment (0)
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Hi! I coudn't find the right place to ask this question, but I deadly need your help.

I would like to write reviews of several Agile tools that will help people to choose the best one tool according to their needs. 

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Aug 25

Vinegar treatment of toenail fungus is?

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Aug 25

Elastin and aging: the natural way to fight against wrinkles

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Aug 16

How to make delicious diabetes-friendly dishes: chicken Citrus Salad and chicken artichoke soup

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