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Sociology and Scrum
The Scrum Master job requires skills in diplomacy-- and effective communication. Team members must also communicate effectively. Tools for accomplishing these "soft-skill" tasks are now freely available. A detailed book about one of these useful tools entitled SOFTWARE FOR YOUR HEAD, is over 400 pages in total, and is now available-- free to the world in PDF format.
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Selling Scrum to Your Manager?
Trying to Sell Scrum to Management? Failing and wondering why? This often happens in the days after someone returns from a CSM course ready to help change the world.
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Constraints are Advantages in Disguise
Building software is closely associated with managing a lot of constraints. These constraints might be in terms of time, money, technology, decisions, compatibility, regulatory, people, process or all of the above. Jim Bird discussed the constraints imposed by Scrum, XP and how they help in fostering creativity and building the right software.
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Agile Australia - Opening Keynotes
There were two opening keynote addresses at the recent Agile Australia conference in Melbourne - Jim Highsmith spoke on "Beyond Scope, Schedule and Cost – Optimizing Value" and Jeff Smith spoke about Suncorp's Agile transition and how they are extending Agile approaches into the wider business areas in a talk titled "Delivering Business Value with Agile".
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Hiring for an Agile Team
Agile development model has spawned a lot of interest, conferences, books across the entire software development community. The paradigm of effective software development has taken a shift in the right direction. One area which still needs some refactoring is the best way to hire for an Agile team.
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Interview, Part 2: Alistair Cockburn of ICAgile.org
Alistair Cockburn is a signatory of the Agile Manifesto, an author of multiple Agile book titles, a keynote speaker at numerous Agile conferences, and most recently, the spokesperson for ICAgile.org, a credentialing body offering several levels of Agile certification. This is Part 2 of an interview that covers a wide range of topics in the Agile space.
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Two Worlds Collide: PMI and Agile
Recently, a slide deck published by PMI Network magazine entitled “Is Agile Right for your project?” created quite some ripples on twitter as well as PMI Agile group.
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Sprint Burndowns - Are We Measuring the Wrong Things?
Does a the traditional Sprint Burndown chart help the team? A number of Scrum teams find that tracking task hours hides the true state of the sprint and prefer other tools.
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Jim Highsmith at Agile Australia - advice for managers
Jim Highsmith spoke at the Agile Australia conference this week, he presented at an executive breakfast on ways executives and managers can assist an Agile transition and gave the opening keynote about the need to rethink performance measures and how the dimensions of the project management “Iron Triangle” need to change as organisations adopt Agile techniques.
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InfoQ Cloud Computing Survey – Participate and Get a Copy of the Results
InfoQ Cloud Computing Survey – Participate and Get a Copy of the Results
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Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part 3
Ken Schwaber is the co-creator of Scrum with Jeff Sutherland. This is Part 3 of a multi-part interview with Ken, covering Scrum credentialing and testing, Scrum coaching, Agile certification for Java developers, and more.
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Is Good Code Enough for a Project to Be Successful?
Simon Brown, a developer, architect and author, considers that it takes a lot more than just good code to create a successful project. In his presentation, "Good Code Isn’t Enough", Brown goes through all the elements necessary for a project’s success, from upfront design to operation documentation.
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Big Ball of Mud, Still the Most Popular Software Design
Big Ball of Mud, is a code jungle which is haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy and connected by duct-tape. Over the years we have been introduced to various guidelines such as SOLID, GRASP and KISS amongst age old, high cohesion and low coupling to deal with this Mud. However, the situation still remains bleak and Big Ball of Mud seems to be a popular way to design and architect software.
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10 Suggestions for the Architect of an Agile Team
Tom Hollander, a Solutions Architect at Microsoft Australia, held a presentation entitled The Role of an Architect in an Agile Team at TechEd Australia where he discussed what he does as an architect leading an agile team.
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How do you Convince an Agile Skeptic?
Daniel Markham, an agile coach, is asking the question "why there are some "seriously pissed off people about Agile out there? Isn't agile supposed to be warmth, apple pie, motherhood, goodness and all of that? Why so much anger?"