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Jeff Sutherland on Scrum and Not-Scrum

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies,
Adopting Agile

Scrum creator Jeff Sutherland guesses there are 120,000 Scrum teams holding standup meetings on any given working day. But how many are really doing Scrum? At QCon London 2006 he talked about "the Nokia test" which he likes to use to distinguish whether teams are doing Agile or only iterative process - or neither! He also revealed the connection between Scrum and the Mars robots.

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Lord Of The Rings: Web Style

Community
SOA
Topics
Web 2.0,
WS Standards

Paul Downey has produced a Lord of the Rings style adventuring map for SOA, titled The Web Is Agreement.

InfoQ Presentation: DSDM and Lean Explained

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies

This second Agile2006 Agile Styles video looks at DSDM and Lean. Jean Tabaka covered the history and principles of the venerable DSDM methodology, founded in 1994 and now accepted in the UK for use on government contracts. Mary Poppendieck gave real examples of how the 7 Lean principles provide competitive advantage, and discussed the relationship between quality, speedy delivery and low cost.

Book Excerpt: Agile Software Development, 2nd ed.

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies,
Stories & Case Studies

In this updated classic on Agile software development, Alistair Cockburn adds reflections from five more years of practice and research. InfoQ brings you Chapter 1, in which he's compared software development with another team-cooperative game - rock climbing - and two common comparison partners, engineering and model building, in order to explore alternate ways of thinking about the work we do.

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Book Excerpt: Agile Software Development, 2nd ed.

Community
Agile
Topics
Methodologies,
Stories & Case Studies

In this updated classic on Agile software development, Alistair Cockburn adds reflections from five more years of practice and research. InfoQ brings you Chapter 1, in which he compares software development with another team-cooperative game - rock climbing - and two common comparison partners, engineering and model building, in order to explore alternate ways of thinking about the work we do.

Standish: Why were Project Failures Up and Cost Overruns Down in 1998?

Community
Agile
Topics
Delivering Value,
Methodologies

Following InfoQ's August interview with Jim Johnson, creator of the CHAOS Chronicles on project failure, one important question remained: how does the Standish Group explain the amazing change in cost overrun from 189% in 1994 to 69% in 1998? In an excerpt from this month's CHAOS University newsletter, Johnson refers to events in 1996 that changed the complexion of project planning and execution.

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David Black on the Success of Ruby

Community
Ruby
Topics
Community

Noted Ruby community leader and author David Black puts the success of Ruby and the growth of its community in historical perspective, why Matz is an optimal custodian for the language, and the overall success of Ruby and Rails and related conferences. We also discuss David's book Ruby for Rails, and why it's needed at this time by the Rails community.

Billy Hollis on the Future of Software Development

Community
.NET
Topics
Rich Client / Desktop,
.NET Framework

David Totzke interviews with Billy Hollis, prolific writer and speaker on all things Visual Basic.NET and .NET in general. Billy shares his thoughts on Windows Forms, WF, Data Binding as well as why he doesn't use Data Binding. He provides insight on when developers should use Patterns and Practices Application Blocks and prognosticates his view of the future of .NET.

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The Roots of Scrum

Community
Agile
Topics
Delivering Value,
Methodologies

In a 60-minute JAOO 2005 talk, Scrum creator Dr. Jeff Sutherland covers the history of Scrum from its inception thru his participation with Ken Schwaber in rolling out Scrum to industry, to its impact at Easel, Fuji-Xerox, Honda, WildCard, Lexus, Google. He looks at Scrum types A, B and "all at once" type C, and confirms the humorous rumour that Kent Beck "stole" Scrum practices when creating XP.