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Mike Cottmeyer's View Inside The Lean/Kanban Conference
The first organized conference focusing on Lean & Kanban was held in Miami during the first week of May. Mike Cottmeyer was present and used his popular blog 'Leading Agile' to provide a relatively comprehensive play-by-play look into what occurred there.
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An Agile Blue Angels Team
Promoting, sustaining, and evolving agile practices in an organization requires expertise and experience. Initially, many companies bring in outside experts to help get things started. Laura Moore has described a model, based on the Blue Angels, which companies can use to develop and deploy internal experts.
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Structuring Messy Product Teams
Cory Foy is dealing with an existing organizational structure that has grown by acquisition and evolution into a bit of a monster. Team members are scattered about the globe and in some cases don't occupy the same timezone. Releases were taking 12-18 months.
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How Many Chickens Are Too Many?
The daily scrum is an important meeting within the Agile team. According to Scrum, only the pigs are allowed to speak during such meetings and chickens should just listen. Is there a limit on the maximum number of chickens, who could attend the daily scrums?
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Cost Justifying an Agile Migration
Show me the money - cost justification of Agile migration is a thorny issue. Agile approaches are more successful, deliver value sooner and produce better quality products, but how do we prove it? This article discusses measurements and presents results that help to justify adopting Agile methods.
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Scott Ambler Revisits Agile Process Maturity Models
Scott Ambler, who once wrote 'Has Hell Frozen Over? An Agile Maturity Model?', has started writing about something that he is calling the Agile Process Maturity Model. The discussion around Scott's model has uncovered another model by the same name, and renewed the debate over the usefulness of a maturity model for agile.
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Interview with Robin Dymond at Agile 2008
Robin Dymond gives an overview of Lean, how it can help take Agile to the 'next level' and why organizations that fail to change will not have successful Agile teams. Robin describes an organizational mismatch between traditional hierarchies and team structures. He believes that organizations will need to reorganize around teams to get the most out of Agile.
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Return on Investment for Automated Testing
Test automation is often seen as a way to reduce the costs of testing, increase test coverage and effectiveness, and shorten testing cycles. However, the transition to automated testing is rarely fast and never free, there are real trade-offs to be made. Aspire systems has created a test automation ROI calculator and made it publicly available.
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Ideal Iteration Length
One of the frequent questions in Agile adoption is related to the ideal iteration length. Teams usually gravitate between iteration lengths ranging from a week to two months. Choosing the right iteration length is an important decision and the success of Agile adoption depends a lot on the right iteration size.
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Performance Engineering in an Agile Project
Performance Engineering is an important software development discipline that ensures that applications are architect-ed, designed, built and tested for performance. However, mostly in traditional projects the scope of performance engineering is limited to performance testing. This is a sure cause for concern.
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Inducting Newbies On Large Agile Projects
Anand Vishwanath suggests for large agile projects that using a small scale "simulation project" might be the best approach to getting the newbies into the groove, and provides a recipe for how to go about doing this.
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Book Excerpt: Agile Testing
InfoQ brings you an excerpt from Agile Testing, a book is for testers on an agile team, test and quality assurance managers transitioning to agile development, and agile teams learning how to approach testing.
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Agile Governance: The Bridge Between Management and IT
Traditional project governance is used to describe the rules and processes that need to exist to ensure a successful project. At first glance the concept of governance and Agile seem to be incompatible however, most Agilists would agree that just enough governance might do more good than bad for the Agile project.
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How Do You Get a Hyper-Productive Team?
Some of us have been lucky enough to be on hyper-productive teams, others think this is a myth. Joanna Zweig and Cesar Idrovo have been discussing Group Coherence - a search for hyper productivity with some insightful information for everyone trying to produce a hyper-productive team. Their research gives a possible model of how and why some Agile teams excel and others do not.
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Interview with Pollyanna Pixton at Agile 2008
Pollyanna Pixton tells us that within a culture of trust leaders must stand back and if they don't then they are hampering and restricting the productivity and the creativity and the innovation of teams. She discusses how leaders can foster a culture of trust and what they must do to get the most out of Agile teams.