Agile Journal

Agile Journal is an online magazine and e-newsletter focused on providing readers with the need-to-know information and resources they need to develop software for an agile business. For over three years Agile Journal has delivered thought leadership and pragmatic advice from a wide range of industry experts, as well as direct feedback from hands-on developers and project managers.

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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 topicsmay08-challenge 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.

Please Contact us at www.agilejournal.com/contactus with any comments or suggestions about how we can improve the site to meet your agile requirements. And if you would like to contribute an article on an upcoming topic just refer to the 2008 editorial calendar at agilejournal.com/edcal for future themes. Send your article ideas to editor@agilejournal.com

Patrick Egan
Publisher Agile Journal
Featured articles...
Elastic Path uses Distributed Agile and Outsourcing to Stay on Top in Fast-Paced E-Commerce Software
We all know the payoffs that can result from employing the Agile methodology and employing it well: from highly effective self-managed teams, increased flexibility and realtime change management ... to tight quality control and heightened collaboration.But what happens when you are already doing Agile in-house and then want or need to expand your Agile development circle to include an outsourcing partner that is 5,000 miles away?
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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 feasible to deliver anyth...
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Overcoming Resistance to Change with Distributed Agile 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...
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Agile Adoption Patterns 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...
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KPIs for Agile Teams 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 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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