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T-shaped Hybrids in the Multi-disciplinary Team
A survey of recent commentary and presentations by Ken Schwaber and others on the merits of the multidisciplinary, T-shaped, team-member within an empowered cross-functional team.
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How DevOps Complements Agile at Nokia Entertainment
Agile has the manifesto and principles, it focuses on people, clarity for the stakeholders, faster delivery, and happier customers, so why would you need DevOps? John Clapham from Nokia Entertainment in Bristol talked at the Agile Methods in the Finance Sector and Complex Environment conference about what DevOps is and what it has brought to their business.
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The Scrum Behind a Fixed-Everything Success
How can you combine Scrum with a project constrained by a fixed price and completion date? Tim van Baarsen discusses his experience of completing a fixed-everything tender through continuing to work with Scrum behind the scenes.
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Drinking the Scrum Kool-Aid
The Scrum Holy War warns about the religious fervor of Scrum and why it won’t save your company.
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Applying the Lean Startup Approach in Enterprises
Coming to decisions about which products to build or which features to add to existing products can be difficult. The lean startup approach can help to get insight into the needs of customers, and to build a sustainable business around a set of products and services that serves those needs. How can enterprises adopt the lean startup approach to become more innovative and competitive?
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Agile Singapore Speakers & Schedule Announced
The first Agile Singapore conference will be held in November 2013 and the organisers have announced the speakers and talks for the first two tracks.
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Developers, Developers, Developers: Rackspace and Others Aggressively Court Key Cloud Consumer
Recent research has made it increasingly clear that developers hold the key to cloud adoption, and Rackspace is trying to make themselves an attractive option. The Rackspace Developer Discount program is designed to lower the barrier to entry and follows similar efforts by AWS and Microsoft.
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Flexible Contract Template Now Available
Following on from the announcement of the Flexible Contract model that supports agile development at the Agile 2013 conference, Susan Atkinson and Gabrielle Benefield have released a version of the contract under Creative Commons licensing and made it available for download.
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An MVP is about Smart Learning
Steve Blank explains the real goal of an MVP is to start the learning process, not to create a smaller and cheaper version of the final product.
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Agile India 2014 Conference Announced
The next Agile India conference will be held in Bangalore in February/March 2014. A crowd-sourced open submission system has been set up for session proposals and the first keynote speaker has been identified.
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Agile 2013 Vendor Roundup (Part 3)
Continuing our coverage from the Agile 2013 conference, this is the third round up of the vendors who exhibited at the Agile 2013 conference.
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Combining Data, Intuition and Fun in Lean Startup
The lean startup is a “scientific approach to creating and managing startups” as Eric Ries describes in the lean startup principles. It uses “hard things” like validated learning with experiments and data. But what the “soft things” like intuition, guts, feelings, passion, inspiration and fun, do they also matter when you are developing new products?
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Architects: Chickens or Pigs in an Agile Development Process?
Can architects play a meaningful role in agile projects, or does their tendency to do “big design up front” make them a sideline resource? Nick Malik, an Enterprise Architect with Microsoft, recently explored this topic in a blog post and concluded that architects can absolutely play a key role in software projects that use Scrum.
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Reimagining ALM
Sam Guckenheimer proposes to reimagine ALM to enable continuous feedback on software projects with a metric based on how long it takes to drive an experiment and obtain validated learning from it.
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Agile and Sales
A sales manager answers the questions of can sales be agile and how to make the change.