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-weight of the stock

yangsmile — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:53:55 +0100

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[Agile developers seek job] Senior Microsoft . ...

Valeria Kokina — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:42:29 +0100

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- Strong programming skills in Microsoft .NET

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ScrumMaster Role and Capacity

Emil Schnabel — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:46:10 +0100

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 lo...

cPrime’s Agile Consulting Services hits major milestones.

cPrime — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:04:54 +0100

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 i...

Contribute and communicate

Juliette Marsh — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:14:24 +0100

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.

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Get your customers on Board - Continuous feedback with demos

Papapetrou Patroklos — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:37:00 +0100

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 o...

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

Valeria Kokina — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:33:44 +0100

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.

That is why it is important for me to understand what influences your choice of the tool.

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Scaling between Lean and Agile Practice

Ian Mitchell — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:43:51 +0100

Ian Mitchell is Chief Scientist at proAgile Ltd. He can be followed on Twitter: dr_ian_mitchell

Introduction

Agility can be reduced to a few rules. Scrum is a case in point; its rules are well documented and have been popularised for many years. These rules encompass simple things like having a product owner, prioritisation sessions, daily standups, and retrospectives. Of course this level of distillation doesn't provide for much slack, and so the rule...

Agile Transitioning in a Chastened World

Ian Mitchell — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:16:56 +0100

Ian Mitchell is Chief Scientist at proAgile Ltd. He can be followed on Twitter: dr_ian_mitchell

"In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit"

- Alfred North Whitehead

Agile Transitioning has become a hot topic. Ten years ago we never really heard much about it, e...

From the Agile Manifesto to Evolutionary Contract Models: Where Freedom meets the Law

Ian Mitchell — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:13:50 +0100

Ian Mitchell is Chief Scientist at proAgile Ltd. He can be followed on Twitter: dr_ian_mitchell

"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position".
- Mahatma Gandhi

Contracts, and why you can't avoid them

The Agile Manifesto places customer collaboration over contract negotiation. Yet it must be admitted that it would take a hardline ascetic to w...

When is it time to break up with Scrum?

Christen McLemore — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:53:18 +0100

If your team is currently struggling in their Scrum practice, you may be ready to give up or try something else. Kanban is becoming quite popular and I'm recently a Kanban convert so I can understand the allure especially having seen it work so fantastically for teams. However, as a coach, it's my responsibility to find out the root cause of the team's problems with Scrum first. Sometimes it's a simple change that can get them back on track and well worth the cost savi...

Story Points and Estimating

Christen McLemore — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:16:37 +0100

With so many teams attempting to try out Kanban for the first time, I receive tons of questions from within my company as their Agile Evangelist and Coach. Here are a few of the questions I've received and the answers I gave at the time. Keep in mind that as my knowledge of Kanban grows and changes, so do my answers so keep in mind these were from earlier this summer.

QUESTION:

1) what Story Points scale have you found useful with your teams?

we ar...

Is this your Burn Down chart?

Dusan Kocurek — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:45:50 +0100

Original post

Burn Down chart is a primary scrum metric used to track implementation progress of agile project.

Ideal team

Once you see such burn down chart congratulate to the team.

They are doing great job.
Not over-committin...

Agile is NOT for the lazy

Manoel Pimentel — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:01:51 +0100

After a few good years adopting and preaching the Agile methodology, I am proud to say I have very few certainties on the subject (since the magic lies in continuously inspecting and adapting your knowledge). One of these few certainties, however, is: If you are lazy, stay away of Agile methods.

Seattle, WA – July 15, 2011 – David J. Anderson & Associates today announced an intensive 2-day Kanban training class designed to provide users with an introduction to Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban...

Enterprise Agile Startegy

ani — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:44:26 +0100

During enterprise scrum adoption it’s quite obvious that teams has a tendency fall back to old model if they are offered a chance. One of the most common mistakes that organizations make during scrum adoption is the thought of “Agile or Not Agile”.

Initial project selection

When the process is kick started, after few in...

Scrum beyond the enemy lines

Manoel Pimentel — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:23:52 +0100

Historical perspective

In recent years, the Agile paradigm is increasingly being adopted by large corporations across the globe. Whatever the reasons for bringing these companies to use Agile, in general it is possible to venture the inference that the vast majority of these companies are seeking some gain in process efficiency, so that in the end, some tangible result will be possible in the financial sphere.

Rightly or wrongly, this amplification of the A...