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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.
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Agile 2013 Keynote Speakers Announced
The Agile Alliance has announced the three keynote speakers for the Agile 2013 conference in August. Abhi Nemani, Tim Lister and Gene Kim will talk about leveraging the power of agility in their various fields.
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Balancing Independent Testing and Agile Collaboration
Collaboration between developers and testers is often considered important in cross functional agile teams to become successful. There is also a benefit of having independence for testers, so that they can report about the quality of the software without fear. How can you balance testers independence with collaboration in agile teams?
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Why the Lean Start-up Changes Everything
Steve Blank makes the argument that mainstream adoption of the lean start-up is not only attainable, but would provide the basis for a newer innovation based economy.
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Agile Singapore Conference Announced
The first Agile Singapore conference will be held on November 7-8 2013. The conference is community organized with Jim McCarthy and David Hussman as the opening and closing keynote speakers.
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Agile 2013 Program Announced
The Agile Alliance has announced the program for the upcoming Agile 2013 conference. There are 210 sessions over the five days, plus a number of keynotes and special events.