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Submissions wanted for Agile Leadership Summit 2006
Deadline is May 31 for submission of Experience Reports for the APLN Leadership Summit, to be held at the Agile2006 conference in July. This is an amazing opportunity to talk all day with Agile leaders in the setting of a small conference.
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Planning 101 for Agile Teams
Detractors have propagated the myth that "Agile teams don't plan", which couldn't be farther from the truth. Planning is essential to Agile, because of its empirical nature: plan, execute, inspect, adapt... plan again. Stacia Heimgartner outlines the five levels of planning required to set good expectations with all levels of the organization.
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"If you can't say something nice..."
David Anderson reflected recently on one simple tool for building trust in the workplace. What a difference a few words can make.
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Meeting the Challenge of Collective Code Ownership
The challenge: find the balance between pure practice and local compromise. Martin Fowler has brought us a story of a team in trouble, which took a step back to improve coding discipline and brush up on the basic practices that support collective ownership. In addition to the short-term gains of increased velocity and improved morale, the overall quality of the team's output improved as well.
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Discussion: "Decide as Late as Possible"
Lean Software Development says "decide as late as possible", but this goes against the grain for new Agile managers and team leads, who used to be responsible for careful up-front planning. Can this possibly be right? A group of ScrumMasters recently discussed the topic.
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Sign up for the APLN Leadership Summit at Agile 2006
The APLN Leadership Summit will be held at the Agile 2006 conference in Minneapolis on July 26 this year.
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Are Traditional Project Managers De-Agilizing Projects?
David Nicolette fears that it is all too common to see agile teams have a traditional manager thrust upon them who doesn't understand agile and thereby harms the project through over control.
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Software Manager Basics Explained
Most software managers began their careers as software developers. They either had some ambition, some skill recognized as good management material, or were in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time. If you find yourself in a management position, or in a team lead position, how do you succeed?
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The Art of Performance Feedback
The Agile approach, with its emphasis on "people over process" and "face-to-face communication", requires that managers pay attention to developing their communication skills. This is particularly important when helping employees improve their performance at work. Paul B. Brown has reviewed three recent books on the subject.