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How Competencies and Mental Shifts Help Agile Adoption
Two stories describing how professionals discovered ways to move from “using a waterfall process” to “becoming agile”, and dealt with their concerns along the way.
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XP Days Benelux 2012, first day sessions on agile
The 10th anniversary edition of the XP Days Benelux 2012 conference provides good opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing experiences on agile. An impression of some of the sessions from day 1.
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Business Craftsmanship: an Approach for Transforming Knowledge Work
Tobias Mayer started Business Craftsmanship: an organizational development and transformation approach to teach and apply ideas from Agile software development to any knowledge work context. Several posts have been published, for example about “Core Values” and “In Praise of Processes”.
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Survey Confirms Biggest Agile Challenges Are Communication and Continuous Improvement
A new survey, conducted by Serena Software at the recent Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas has confirmed that whilst projects using Agile are working well, they could be much better and some of the biggest challenges include upsteam and downstream communication.
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Community-Driven Research: Biggest Impediments for Effective Agile Adoption?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a 7th question: "Biggest Impediments for Effective Agile Adoption?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Culture Game Extract #3 Now Available from InfoQ
The latest extract from Dan Mezick's book The Culture Game is now available on InfoQ.com He is also an organizer for The Agile CULTURE Conference being held in Boston and Philadelphia this week.
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Dave Snowden: Agile - sound practice, poor theory
Dave Snowden gave a talk last week in which he discussed how Agile is founded on good practices, but often fails to scale effectively because practitioners do not understand why the techniques work, and thus fail to adapt them to the complex environments which are characteristic of large organisations. Asking management to adopt agile won't work - agile must adapt to complex business realities.
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Agile 2012 Session: Stop Listening to Your Customers
Brandon Carlson gave a talk at Agile 2012 titled Stop Listening to Your Customers in which he makes the case for using deep analytics and application instrumentation to discover customer behavior and use that to help guide product requirements. He spoke about the impact of wasted effort and unused features and how just listening to customer requests will result in unused, bloated products.
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Community-Driven Research: Most Important and Adoption-Ready Agile Practices?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a third question about the "Most Important & Adoption-Ready Agile Practices?". This is part of a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Agile 2012 Session: Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools Workshop
The Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools (AA-FTT) workshop was held on the day before the Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas. Run as an open space, the session was open to anyone interested in talking about the future of functional testing tools and beyond.
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Agile 2012 Session: Dynamic Organizational Modeling
Catherine Louis and Raj Mudhar presented an interactive workshop titled LEtGO your Organization - design a best-fit large Agile Organization. Using their Dynamic Organizational Modeling approach using LEGO blocks to let participants model and visualize organizational change. The tactyle nature of the tool helps teams make visible the changes they need to make, and design how to achieve them.
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Culture Game Extract #2 Now Available from InfoQ
The second extract from Dan Mezick’s new book The Culture Game is now available for InfoQ readers. The book examines the lessons learned about creating and nurturing organisational culture, and encouraging culture change. This extract discusses how to map the lessons of agile to any enterprise.
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Government Guidelines for Agile Adoption
Recently both the US and UK government accounting oversight bodies issued reports and guidelines on the use of Agile practices for government funded development projects. Both the United States GAO and the United Kingdom NAO recommend the use of Agile as being the best way for building software products in government departments, and they provide guidance for agile adoption and governance.
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Controversial Voke Report Warns Agile Adopters
Voke’s “The Agile Dilemma” report on development methodologies talks about lazy developers avoiding processes, planning and documentation. It calls agile a scam designed to sell services.
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Does Agile Make the PMO Obsolete?
At the recent Agile Australia conference Agile coach Renee Troughton spoke about her experiences changing the governance model at large organizations in Australia and New Zealand. Other commentators talk about the need for "Fluid IT" and discuss governance models that radically change or remove the need for the PMO.