 | 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 name reco... Read More >> |
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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 provided b... Read More >> |
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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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