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The High Cost of Interruptions
Chris Parnin, publishing under the name “ninlabs research”, has released a study of 10,000 programming sessions recorded from 86 programmers using Eclipse and Visual Studio. His research has found that “a programmer is likely to get just one uninterrupted 2-hour session in a day” and that a programmer can take 10 to 15 minutes to resume work after an interruption.
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Minimum Viable Products for Enterprises
Enterprise software startups use a minimum viable product (MVP) to learn about customers with limited effort and money. How can organizations deploy lean startup principles to develop a viable product for their stakeholders?
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Right Way(s) of Doing and Being Agile
Debates are being held in agile communities concerning the right way(s) to do or be agile. It is questioned if you are agile or not, and if you do good or bad scrum. How can you deal with this?
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Things you can Check when Adopting Agile
An agile checklist is a tool which can help you to assess your agile implementation in an organization, and assist when adopting agile. Some examples of lists with things that you can check when adopting agile.
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Are your Software Development Projects using Agile?
A Gartner research report from December 2009 predicted that by 2012 “agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects”. Let's check if the prediction from Gartner has come true?
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Dear Agilist....
Christopher Avery at the Cutter Consortium publishes a challenge to agilists: become managers and revolutionize the corporate culture yourselves.
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Demand For Agile Skills Outstripping Supply
The supply of agile professionals can't keep up with the demand. That's great news for coaches and practitioners, but bad news for companies hoping to implement agility cheaply.
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What is "Agile Coaching"?
When companies request support for agile adoption, the question arises what agile coaching is, and what companies expect from agile coaching?
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Should we stop using Story Points and Velocity ?
Agilists in the community are debating the use of Story Points and Velocity, making people question the use of these in estimation and measurement of overall progress. The common underlying reason is these metrics are often prone to abuse and are seldom used effectively.
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Qualifying An Agile NearShore Or Offshore Supplier
Fundamentally offshoring and nearshoring software development are at odds with the principals of agile software development. But the financial and labor supply realities of the world have forced this principal to be bent and teams now seek guidance on how best to qualify an agile nearshore or offshore supplier. This articles tries to take a deeper on this topic.
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XP Days Benelux 2012, second day sessions
The 10th anniversary edition of the XP Days Benelux 2012 conference continues on the second day. An impression of the sessions about agile adoption, self organizing and managing technical debt.
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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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Change and Permanence
How do we embrace agile software development, while protecting business transactions from harm, and dispute? The legal profession is risk adverse, and seeks permanence over change. But complex software development require adaptation to change. This article summarizes one angle on this debate.
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Evidence of Success of Agile Projects
Early results of a study on the effects of agile development practices are showing improvements in productivity and quality. These results aim to answer questions on development projects schedules and budgets. They also provide insight in the results of outsourcing and co-located teams.
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Agile Tour Circling All Corners Of The World
Agile Tour is a yearly non-profit conference series that is hosted in a variety of cities worldwide throughout the months of October to December with the aim of connecting the Agile community. Now in its fifth year, the tour is currently making its way around the globe and is supported by both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance.