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Challenges with Distributed Agile - May 08
Volume 3 Number 5 - May 2008
With this 25th issue of the Agile Journal we are opening a new chapter
for the magazine and the Agile Journal website. For the past two years
the Agile Journal website has been dedicated to supporting the online
magazine and development of in-depth articles, case studies and book
reviews on topics of agile development.
This month we will begin the
transformation of the site to focus more regularly on the community and provide a free and open exchange of ideas about agile. We will soon be opening up public blogs and podcast/videocast sections. You will find more regular news and announcements from the industry leaders as well. Of course we will continue to provide the same high quality articles that you have come to expect and we hope to grow the site with your input. In fact I would very much like your continued input on the site and the magazine as we move forward.
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Softening Iterations - Setting up for success
You have an approved project that is about to begin - the
project team is in place, the product owner has been identified - the
stakeholders are eagerly waiting to see results of this agile approach that
they have all heard good things about ...
Here's your dilemma ... the stakeholders are expecting to see
tangible progress at the end of the first iteration in two or three weeks -
having been through presentations of Agile processes. But you know that it's
really not feasi...
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 | Overcoming Resistance to Change with Distributed Agile
Overcoming resistance to
change and addressing challenges with distributed Agile requires considerable
skills and experience. Agile development practices are incredibly popular, with
many developers, because they work well and they add value. Unfortunately, many
Agile enthusiasts are unprepared for the challenge of overcoming organizational
resistance to change - especially from senior management unwilling to sponsor a
methodology which is unfamiliar to them and does not carry the same nam...
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 | Agile Adoption Patterns
Chapter 14: Done State
The Done State practice is a definition that a team agrees upon to
nonambiguously describe what must take place for a requirement to be
considered complete. The done state is the goal of every requirement in
an iteration. It is as close as possible to deploying software as a
team can come.
Note: This material will appear in the forthcoming book,
Agile Adoption Patterns by Amr Elssamadisy (ISBN 0321514521,
Copyright: Pearson Education). The material is being...
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 | KPIs for Agile Teams
Today's Agile teams contend
with challenges that few development visionaries could have imagined when the
foundations for Agile were first put in place.
In this article, we will examine Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that
Agile teams can use to achieve transparency into key development processes, and
fulfill the customer requirements of our maturing world....
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 | FEATURED BOOK: Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success, by Jim Brosseau
Jim Brosseau's Software
Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success is nothing less than a handbook
of guidelines, tips, and techniques for anyone wishing to effect change and
influence improvement in the effectiveness of software development teams. The
book bills itself as an "intensely practical guide to improving the
human dynamics that are crucial to building great software" and I would say it delivers on
that promise. The preface clearly sets the tone for who the target audience is:...
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Latest Issues of Agile Journal
Coming Up - Editorial Calendar
- August 13 - Quality Agile Development
- September 10 - Agile News
- October 08 - Valuable Agile Practices
- November 12 - Introducing Agile to the Organization
- December 10 - The State of the Agile Community
See the full 2008 Editorial Calendar >
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