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Dan Puckett

Dan Puckett is a Agile and Lean coach with Gemba Systems. Dan is based in North Carolina. He is passionate about helping people get more value out of the time they spend working. In his spare time, Dan enjoys experimenting with new programming languages.

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Linda Rising on Customer Interaction Patterns

Topics
Agile,
Methodologies,
Customers & Requirements

Linda Rising talks about patterns and interacting with customers, the need for a better interaction between developers and customers, how she arrived at these patterns, teaching others how to teach.

News by Dan Puckett

Representing Agile Testing

Topics
Agile Techniques,
Agile,
Software Testing

Several members of the Agile community describe different styles for expressing user story tests and the testing of an entire theme.

How To Split User Stories

Topics
Agile,
Agile Techniques

Many new Agile teams have difficulty splitting their user stories small enough to work well with Agile techniques. In several articles, members of the Agile community provide guidance on how to split user stories effectively.

Kanban in the Home

Topics
Agile,
Agile Techniques

Practitioners are finding interesting applications of Kanban concepts in the home, far from the office and factory floor.

The Importance of Agile Feedback Loops

Topics
Agile,
learning

Several members of the Agile community emphasize the importance of feedback loops in the effectiveness of Agile development processes.

What Constitutes A High-Quality Agile Transition?

Topics
Agile,
Adopting Agile

In a number of blog postings, members of the Agile community offer their perspectives on what constitutes a high-quality transition to Agile methods within an organization

Interviews by Dan Puckett

IBM's Elizabeth Woodward on Distributed Team Collaboration

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Agile Techniques,
Agile,
Team Collaboration,
Collaboration

In this interview, Elizabeth Woodward talks about overcoming the collaboration problems that arise in distributed team development. She also discusses using Scrum in distributed teams. As co-author of "A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum," Woodward focuses on establishing good, fundamental practices – as she says good practices are paramount for teams and tooling comes second.

Amr Elssamadisy: Why Agile Works

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Agile,
Adopting Agile,
Methodologies

In this interview Amr Elssamadisy talks about the practice of Agile software development and why it works. Elssamadisy said Agile processes work because developers are able to learn from their successes. Indeed, Elssamadisy said developers learn from both their mistakes/failures, as well as from their successes. Moreover, developers need to learn how to work with teams and to handle confrontation.

Bob Galen Talks Scrum

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Agile Techniques,
Agile,
Adopting Agile,
Methodologies

In this interview, Bob Galen talks up the benefits of the Scrum methodology. He delves into issues such as what is the product owner’s role and how to develop a well-formed backlog. Galen also focuses on the various parts of the team, including the Scrum Master. He also gets into the process of grooming, and what to do and not do in a sprint.