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The 12 Days of Agile Christmas

In the spirit of the season we bring you the 12 Days of Christmas in Agile projects.

Terry Bunio
on Dec 23, 2011
Feature Injection: three steps to success

Often Customers provide half baked solutions with no linkage to value. An Agile team needs examples linked to the Business Value they provide. Feature Injection is a process that takes a half baked solution identifies the Business Value it provides and then produces a set of examples driven from that value.

Chris Matts Gojko Adzic
on Dec 14, 2011
Is Agile Sub-Optimal?

Lean has the concept of a Sub-Optimal process. A Sub-Optimal process is where a part of the process is optimized to the detriment of the entire process’s efficiency. Are Agile practices creating projects that are in danger of being or becoming Sub-Optimal? What Agile practices are contributing to projects becoming Sub-Optimal? What can we do ensure our projects do not become Sub-optimal?

Terry Bunio
on Dec 05, 2011
Agile Adoption – Vital Behaviours and Influence Strategies

Steve is interested in uncovering better ways to deliver successful projects regardless of whether or not those ways are ‘agile’. After reading "Influencer, the Power to Change Anything" he found a set of behaviours and influence strategies that are helpful for giving projects the best chance for success and also for helping teams transition to agile.

Steve Rogalsky
on Dec 01, 2011
Trust is good, Control is better - Software Architecture Assessment

Testing is an important means to obtain information about implementations. Likewise, code reviews help to keep the code quality high. What is very common for code, gets sometimes neglected for software architecture. But how can a project team test the architecture itself? Software architecture assessment represents an effective approach for introspecting and assessing software design.

Michael Stal
on Nov 29, 2011
Agile Modeling: Enhancing Communication and Understanding

Modeling supports us in communicating and understanding when we create software solutions. As communication and understanding are two of the most critical aspects of delivering software solutions - modeling is a valuable tool that should not be overlooked. Agile Modeling adheres to and aligns with Agile values and principles and should be one of the practices within your Agile toolkit.

Lee Ackerman
on Nov 21, 2011
Social + Lean = Agile

In today’s increasingly dynamic business environment, organizations must continuously adapt to survive. Change management has become a major bottleneck. Organizations’ need a practical mechanism for managing controlled variance and change in-flight to break the logjam. This paper provides a foundation for applying lean and agile principles to achieve Enterprise Agility through social collaboration

Dave Duggal
on Nov 16, 2011
Virtual Panel: Specification by Example, Executable Specifications, Scenarios and Feature Injection

In the last couple of years terms like Specification by Example, Executable Specifications and Feature Injection have showed up quite frequently in the community, often in relation to Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) or tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow. InfoQ have talked to some of the leading experts in this domain about what these practices are and how they relate to BDD.

Jon Arild Tørresdal
on Nov 10, 2011
Interview and Book Review: Specification by Example

Gojko Adzic has written the book Specification by Example, explaining the set of techniques for describing the functional and behavioural aspects of a computer system in a way that they are useful to the development team (expressed ideally as executable tests), understandable by non-technical stakeholders and maintainable to remain relevant despite changing customer demands.

Shane Hastie
on Oct 24, 2011
Test automation and Continuous Delivery

This article shows how automating certain programmable aspects of a test suite can help software delivery. Covered are automated testing, costs per deployment, tests as documentation & manual testing.

Ranjan D Sakalley
on Oct 21, 2011
Agile is at a crossroad: Scale or fail?

Risk management is the hottest topic in IT. Processes for effective risk management and investment decision making will allow Agile techniques to scale beyond projects to the enterprise. Without them, Agile will be confined to the ghetto of development. In this article Chris and Olav present some tools and techniques to identify and manage risks on Agile projects.

Chris Matts Olav Maassen
on Oct 14, 2011
Culture & Methods

Agile Hybridization - Novel Experimentation or "They just don't get it."

Chris Goldsbury discusses the perceived conflict between waterfall and agile processes and identifies a set of context factors that provide guidelines for adopting an appropriate hybrid process between the two.

Christopher Goldsbury
on Oct 05, 2011

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