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- Agile Techniques
Elisabeth Hendrickson describes the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools Group (AAFT) as a community that is helping to foster and create the next generation of functional testing tools. In this interview at Agile 2008, she tells us about the current state and the current needs of the Agile community around functional testing tools beyond FIT and FITNesse.
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- Agile
- Topics
- Agile Techniques
A personal time management approach known as "The Pomodoro Technique" is becoming quite popular with agile practitioners. Pomodoro includes a number of practices similar to those used by an agile team: time-boxing, frequent opportunities to inspect-and-adapt, estimation, a preference for low-tech tools, and an emphasis on maintaining a sustainable pace.
- Agile
- Topics
- Software Craftsmanship,
- Adopting Agile
While Scott Ambler, Ross Pettit and others continue to pursue the creation of a maturity model for agile, David Starr has looked at how and why an organization might want to measure things like: agility, craftsmanship, and organizational success. He found craftsmanship relatively easy to measure, while agility was the most difficult to measure in a useful way.
- Agile
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- Agile in the Enterprise,
- Leadership,
- Adopting Agile
Robin Dymond gives an overview of Lean, how it can help take Agile to the 'next level' and why organizations that fail to change will not have successful Agile teams. Robin describes an organizational mismatch between traditional hierarchies and team structures. He believes that organizations will need to reorganize around teams to get the most out of Agile.
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- Topics
- Collaboration
During Agile 2008, Dr. Linda Rising held a presentation centered on experiments conducted many years ago, presenting how deep, powerfully affecting, and difficult to avoid are human “prejudices” and “stereotypes”. This article is a summary of that presentation.
Presentations about agile2008

- Agile
- Topics
- Adopting Agile
Dave Nicolette and Karl Scotland try to introduce non-technical managers to one of the most popular Agile development techniques: Test-Driven Development (TDD). The presentation intends to be a primer for managers who want to understand the value of TDD, and of Agile in general, in software development.

- Agile
- Topics
- Delivering Quality,
- Delivering Value,
- Methodologies
In this presentation held during Agile 2008, Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presents the Lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners.
Interviews about agile2008

- Agile
- Topics
- Agile in the Enterprise,
- Adopting Agile
Bas Vodde describes strategies for large teams with legacy software to adopt Scrum successfully. Bas discusses communication problems found in most component teams and why and how teams - especially large ones - should make the change to feature teams and how that change affects organizational structure.

- Agile
- Topics
- Agile Techniques
In this interview with Jeff Patton at Agile 2008, he talks about three strategies that can help product owners do their job more effectively by embracing the inherent uncertainty in all software development. Namely they are understanding the ultimate goals of the project, delaying decisions until the last responsible moment, and scaling up by building quality.