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Interview: James Shore on “The Art of Agile Development”
In this interview taken by InfoQ's Deborah Hartmann during the Agile 2007 conference, James Shore, a prominent figure of the Agile community, talks about the book "The Art of Agile Development".
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Integrating Testers on to the Agile Team
What is the role of testers on an Agile team? What is their day to day experience like? What lessons have they learned
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Don't Worry About Scaling Scrum
Most Scrum adopters have their first doubt in terms of its scalability. Tobias Mayer suggests that before looking into quick solutions for complex problems, adopters should focus on understanding the principles of Scrum. Once the foundation is correctly laid, Scrum will take care of scaling itself.
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Stories of Scrum Adoption in China
This recent inquiry, by InfoQ China editor Jacky Li, looked at five very different cases of Scrum adoption in China, which got different results. He asked: Why did you use Scrum? How did you adopt it? What problems did you encounter, and why did it succeed or fail? Despite the small sample size, it's an interesting comparison, pointing out that improvement doesn't ensure success.
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Creating The Culture For An Agile Environment
Greg Smith offers an in-depth practical perspective on making your agile transition just as much about culture change as it is about process change.
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Debate: Agile Transition Success Rates, Help or Harm?
Many of the Agile community have chimed in on a recent popular discussion regarding success rates of Agile transitions. Responding to Niraj Khanna's question on the subject, Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, Alistair Cockburn, Chet Hendrickson, and many more debate the value and risk of establishing such statistics.
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Common Questions when Adopting TDD
If you are new to TDD you may be struggling with some common questions such as: How much upfront design should I tolerate? Or, when writing a test you have to build interfaces and some classes to get it to even compile - how far do you let that go?
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Is the ScrumMaster-as-Blocker a Pattern to Follow or a Smell to Avoid?
So, you are on a development team that is adopting Agile or thinking of going in that direction. If you are adopting Agile by starting small, you probably are working against-the-grain in your organization. You may have heard that there should be a role that protects the team from the rest of the non-Agile world that might be useful
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Kent Beck on Implementation Patterns
What does good code look like? In this interview, Kent Beck talks about his new book, Implementation Patterns, that deals with this question. Kent explains why Compose Method is so important, but also talks about the relationship between implementation patterns and XP, the history of software patterns and why he believes that Cockburn's Shu-Ha-Ri description of learning is naïve and simplistic.
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Unconsciously Agile? (Rhythms of Agile Development)
Damon Poole wrote recently that many of us maybe practicing Agile development without even realizing it. It turns out that many of us maybe showing signs of the Agile disease without knowing it.
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Mythical Agile Shortcuts
Going agile seems a pretty trivial task. We pair up, write unit tests, integrate regularly and support our teams with an easy to manage framework such as Scrum. In reality, however, this is not the case. All too often the benefits are not achieved and team does not function as expected. Ross Petit's recent article sheds some light on why things go wrong when the rubber hits the road.
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Charming the Army: the Power of Delivery
Here is a story about Agile's use in a governmental organisation: at the 2006 APLN Leadership Summit Mark Salamango and John Cunningham looked at the problems and opportunities of introducing Agile in Army environments. True Agile practices cannot be 'commanded' or 'directed’ but frequent delivery offers Agile leaders a "soft" kind of power that is, in fact, very effective.
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Panel on Agile Leadership: Stories from the Trenches
InfoQ presents video of a panel from the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile2006, where four business leaders spoke about their experiences: Bud Phillips (Capital One Financial), Israel Ganot (BMC Software), Steven Ambrose (DTE Energy), Peter George (Cronos Inc.). Topics included top-down vs. bottom-up adoption, making the leap of faith to enterprise adoption and the value of the PMO.
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Opinion: The Implicit Backlog
Last week, we reported on the wastes that are attributed to having a Product Backlog. This week, to keep it interesting, we'll report on the wastes present when a Product Backlog is absent.
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InfoQ Interview: Jeff Sutherland on "Who's Doing Scrum"
There are over 10,000 Scrum Masters trained, that's a lot of Scrum! Well: Scrum, variants of Scrum, and Scrum-like processes. Are these distinctions important? Jeff Sutherland told us why he thinks it's important to understand a team's level of adoption - not to label it but to continue improvement. He cited the example of organically growing a Scrum team practice-by-practice at Google AdWords.