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Business of Software Engineering - Throughput Accounting and the Theory of Constraints
In his recent blog posting “Theory of Constraints and Software Engineering” Steve Tendon addresses why throughput accounting should be preferred over cost accounting in software development organizations. He also provides a simple model for throughput accounting that is applicable to software engineering.
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Culture Game Extract #2 Now Available from InfoQ
The second extract from Dan Mezick’s new book The Culture Game is now available for InfoQ readers. The book examines the lessons learned about creating and nurturing organisational culture, and encouraging culture change. This extract discusses how to map the lessons of agile to any enterprise.
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Controversial Voke Report Warns Agile Adopters
Voke’s “The Agile Dilemma” report on development methodologies talks about lazy developers avoiding processes, planning and documentation. It calls agile a scam designed to sell services.
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Agile Marketers Create an Agile Marketing Manifesto at SprintZero
A group of self styled "Agile Marketers" discussed several independent Agile marketing manifestos evolved in past couple of years to come up with a version agreed widely by the community at SprintZero, a first ever gathering of Agile Marketers on 11th of June at Mindjet in San Francisco.
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Scrum Extensions "Suspended"
Scrum extensions were officially "suspended" by Scrum.org. InfoQ covers the story and dives deeper to find answers on this short lived attempt at providing context-aware scrum practices.
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London’s CW500 Club event dedicated to the future of software development
CW500 Club organised an event dedicated to the future of software development. Now you can find the presentations prepared by the speakers and a summary of the event on the Computer Weekly website.
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Is Kanban the New Scrum?
For years, many people have considered Scrum to be the default starting point when talking about Agile implementations. However, with the recent rise of Kanban, some now see Kanban as the next step in the evolution of Agile.
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To Deliver Innovation Don't FedEx It, ShipIt!
After seven years, over 500 innovation projects and high profile endorsements from Dan Pink and other leading publications that resulted in hundreds of organisations copying the concept, Australian software company Atlassian has had to rename its famous innovation day concept.
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The right time for decision making
Earlier this week Jim Bird from BIDS Trading Technologies posted a blog article about the differences between Agile and Lean approaches to planning and decision making.
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Four Tips on How to Plan Innovative Experiments
In a short video presentation Vijay Govindarajan from Tuck School of Business talks about innovation and shares his tips on how to plan successful experiments in companies.
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Agile On Top Down Under: Record Numbers at Agile Australia 2012
Over 850 delegates crammed into the Hilton on the Park Hotel in Melbourne last week for Agile Australia 2012 to share experiences and learn from over 75 of Australia and New Zealand's most experienced Agile practitioners.
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Scrumodoro: Methods For Personal Effectiveness Within Scrum
Scrum and Pomodoro are blended by Mangus Nord to maximize both team and individual productivity.
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Lean Startup Machine Returns to Toronto
Lean Startup Machine is returning to Toronto June 8-10. I had an opportunity to chat with Jason Little, who was a member of Hire Shark, which won the previous LSM event in Toronto. Jason is returning as one of the event organizers and mentors.
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Improving Productivity and Efficiency for Fully Distributed Teams
Andrew Montalenti on his blog pixelmoneky.org talks about viability of fully distributed teams now and in the future.
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Crossing the Software Education Chasm
In their recent blog posting “Crossing the Software Education Chasm” for the Communications of the ACM Armando Fox and David Patterson from UC Berkeley address the tradeoff between university education of software engineers and actual expectations of employers. They suggest that a solution to reduce this gap consists of teaching students agile development of SaaS apps using tools like rails.