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The Role of the Analyst in Agile Projects

Topics
Agile,
Customers & Requirements

Addressing another Agile Myth (we don't need no analysts!), Shane Hastie, Chief Knowledge Engineer at Software Education, outlines how the Business Analyst can help Agile teamwork - when properly aligned with the business, rather than the development team.

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Individual Yield

Topics
Delivering Quality,
Project Management,
Careers,
Removing Waste

Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt, enumerates some practical points on individual procutivity. This article wonders how well these apply to software development and contrasts his list with that of other lists.

Does Value Stream Mapping Work for Software Development?

Topics
Agile,
Agile Techniques

Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing technique used to analyze the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. This process was successfully implemented in the manufacturing industry by Toyota and has been mapped to software development too. Does software development follow the same path as manufacturing?

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A Case For Short Iterations

Topics
Change,
Agile,
Agile Techniques,
Methodologies

Dave Nicolette, Agile Coach with Valtech, addresses the question are short iterations better than long. Dave demonstrates that short iterations: allow for more rapid response to change, the opportunity to discover and fix problems more often. He also deals with the concerns that short iterations might lead to burnout and other issues.

The Three M's - The Lean Triad

Topics
Agile,
Methodologies,
Delivering Value

The discussion of applying lean principles to software development has largely focused on identifying and eliminating waste (in Japanese: muda). Lean Thinking equally aims to remove overburden (muri) and unnecessary variation (mura). Roman Pichler discusses the relationship of the "three M's" and proposes to eliminate overburden as the first step toward a leaner process.

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Venkat Subramaniam's Pragmatic Factors for Agile Success

Topics
Delivering Quality,
Agile,
Agile Techniques,
Debugging

At NFJS Venkat Subramaniam, author with Andy Hunt of "Practices of an Agile Developer," shared his pragmatic approach to some of the important technical and non-technical factors contributing to project success, including: coding, developer attitude, debugging, mentoring and feedback.

Context-Driven Agile Leadership: Managing Complexity and Uncertainty

Topics
Leadership,
Agile,
Customers & Requirements,
Methodologies

Of course, "anything more than 'barely sufficient' process is waste," but what does that mean for your team, or my next project? In this 60 minute presentation from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, Todd Little shared a model to help choose the right "flavour" of Agile for different kinds of projects, and discussed the importance of 'steering' throughout the project's duration.

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Linda Rising: Prejudices Can Alter Team Work

Topics
Team Collaboration,
Agile,
Collaboration

In this interview filmed during Agile 2008, following the presentation "Who Do You Trust?", Linda Rising shows how prejudices can affect the relationships between team members. According to Linda, we all have a tendency to categorize others based on characteristics like race, religion, sex, but also based on more trivial characteristics, and many times we are not even aware we are doing it.

Pragmatic Dave on Passion, Skill and 'Having A Blast'

Topics
University Programs,
Agile,
Stories & Case Studies,
Methodologies,
Training / Certification

At QconLondon 2007 Jim Coplien spoke with "Pragmatic" Dave Thomas for InfoQ. This energetic 30-minute interview runs the gamut of Dave's wide-ranging interests: 'agile' publishing; how to turn what you love doing into a book; programming (and methodology) monocultures; staying limber with code "katas"; and advice for academics: help your students live with the passion of a 5-year old!