Authors note: A recent blog post on Bob Sutton’s Work Matters reminded me of this little piece I wrote a while ago.
A simple thank you can make a...
0 replies - 77 views - 05/22/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
It’s easy to be critical of managers. A few things to remember.
0. Most people in management roles want to do a good job, but may not know what to do...
0 replies - 993 views - 05/21/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
Far too many Agile development projects fail. It is hard to even accurately measure the number of failures because so many software development projects end up...
0 replies - 5620 views - 05/14/13 by John Sonmez in Articles
Having lived through numerous attempts to build software embracing the concepts behind the agile manifesto, I feel there are three large categories folks fall...
0 replies - 3812 views - 05/14/13 by Michael Mainguy in Articles
In 2009 IBM invited a couple of well-known TV personalities to appear as keynote speakers at an international event. They were interviewed by Scott...
0 replies - 2146 views - 05/07/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
I remember how eager I was earlier this year to hear what Phil, the prophetic groundhog, would predict about when spring would come. It doesn't come...
0 replies - 1882 views - 05/05/13 by Olga Kouzina in Articles
UX Led Development?
This is where your User eXperience (UX) developers are active within a dev-team, pushing the experience, behaviors and interactions....
0 replies - 2670 views - 05/01/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles
A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be divided up: who is going to work on what code;...
0 replies - 4755 views - 04/29/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
My chosen color scheme for Sublime Text doesn't include support for diff/patch files, so I added my own.To the bottom of my .tmTheme file, I added this just...
0 replies - 4424 views - 04/27/13 by Rob Allen in Articles
User Stories are chunks of desired behavior of a software system. They are widely used in agile software approaches to divide up a large amount of...
0 replies - 15809 views - 04/24/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles
Originally authored by Aaron Wagner
I wanted to take a few minutes to share some thoughts and experiences about pair programming.
I'm going to start from...
0 replies - 3562 views - 04/24/13 by Scott Leberknight in Articles
As one of the volunteers at Agile 2012 I was honored to be asked to facilitate the volunteer retrospective.
There were a few constraints that made this...
0 replies - 1769 views - 04/23/13 by Steve Rogalsky in Articles
When you meet an agile team for the first time, it can be a good idea to do a quick assessment of their health. Sometimes you can tell quite quickly if there...
0 replies - 1855 views - 04/22/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
While there’s been some talk and research about project management paradigms e.g. waterfall, Project Management 2.0, ALM, with the paradigm of agile...
0 replies - 1231 views - 04/18/13 by Olga Kouzina in Articles
Frequently people ask me, “How can you be so productive?”
The question seems a bit strange to me, because I often consider myself
not productive at...
0 replies - 1914 views - 04/17/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
