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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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8th Annual State of Agile Development Survey Now Open
The 8th annual State of Agile Development Survey was announced at the Agile 2013 conference. Previous surveys have provided insight into agile adoption. You can participate in the survey, and get the data before it goes public.
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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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QConSF 2013: 40/100 Speakers Confirmed; Web APIs and Data Science at Netflix, LinkedIn, Pinterest
40/100 speakers have been confirmed for the 7th annual QCon San Francisco 2013. QConSF will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco at the Embarcadero on November 11-15, 2013. Registration is open and new speakers and sessions are being posted to the conference site every week. You can get in early by reserving your seat now saving up to $700 by Aug 30th.
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How Googlers Use Their 20% Time
This article contains comments from googlers providing insight in how Google’s engineers use their 20% time on pet projects.
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Tim Lister Keynote from Agile 2013 Available to View
Timothy Lister gave a keynote talk titled "40 Years of Trying to Play Well With Others" at the Agile 2013 conference in Nashville, and the Agile Alliance have made the talk available for viewing through their learning center.
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Has SAFe Cracked the Large Agile Adoption Nut?
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), created by Dean Leffingwell, seems to be gaining momentum in our community and is touted as the equivalent of Scrum at an organizational level. It is currently supported by several vendors including Rally, Net Objectives, Valtech, and Ivar Jacobson International. However, not all in the community think SAFe is a good idea.
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Sustainable Pace, How to Achieve and Improve it?
Being one of the principles of the agile manifesto, sustainable pace is considered important by many to deploy agile. But achieving a sustainable pace can be difficult, and teams are often asked to improve their velocity. What did you do to adopt sustainable pace with your team? And how did you improve the speed in which your team delivers, and establish a new sustainable level?
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Agile 2013 Vendor Roundup (Part 4)
Continuing our coverage from the Agile 2013 conference, this is the fourth round up of the vendors who are exhibiting at Agile 2013.
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Ti.Next-What’s It All About Appcelerator?- Part 2 of 2
In his recent post, ‘Thoughts on Ti.Next’ for the Appcelerator web site, CEO Jeff Haynie talked about the reasons that the popular MBaaS provider is busy revamping Titanium, their signature SDK.
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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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Agile 2013 Vendor Round Up (Part 2)
Continuing our roundup of vendors at Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN, here are some more of the messages from the exhibition floor:
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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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Agile 2013 Vendor Round Up
Agile 2013 vendor round up, featuring news on ASPE, CA, IBM, ICON Training, Logigear, Platinum Edge, Scrum Alliance, Software Education, Telerik, and Thoughtworks.
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How Individuals Can Adopt an Agile Way of Working
Organization mostly do an agile transformation for a whole team, project, or organizational unit, given that agile is a team driven approach. But there are also professionals who start using agile practices individually, or who are working agile as a one person team. How can individuals adopt agile, and what kind of benefits can it give them?