InfoQ Homepage Scrum Content on InfoQ
-
/articles/agile-people-facilitation-skills/en/smallimage/DevelperAbuseMatthew_small.jpg)
Help Your Teams Trade Cubicles for Communication Skills
The Agile “self organising team” paradigm demands new skills of team members – including the people skills for which they may once have depended upon their Project Managers. Far from being redundant, management can now play an important role in helping teams learn new ways to communicate and collaborate. This article proposes some strategies for imparting new skills and suggests some resources.
-
/articles/learning_is_the_bottleneck/en/smallimage/thinker.JPG)
The Secret Sauce of Highly Productive Software Development
When Agile teams get stuck in the just-average Norming stage, rather than continuting to the exciting, high Performing stage of teamwork, sometimes they're suffering from an invisible "learning bottleneck" that stunts team performance. Agile practices require us to take time to reflect and learn - and a team that learns quickly succeeds.
-
/articles/paul-oldfield-interview/en/smallimage/pauloldfield.jpg)
Paul Oldfield on Doing Agile Right
In a new InfoQ interview, Agile thought-leader Paul Oldfield shares his ideas on what it means for organizations to do Agile "right".
-
/articles/kent-beck-interview-2006/en/smallimage/kb.jpg)
Kent Beck on Agile Adoption & Values
In an interview with InfoQ editor Kurt Christensen, Kent Beck shares his thoughts on a range of topics, from the challenges associated with adopting and applying agile values and practices within a large organization, to the future of agile as it gains mainstream acceptance.
-
/articles/NMHU-scrum-university-apprentice/en/smallimage/image_runningman2.jpg)
Experience Report: Agile Development Apprenticeship at NMHU
During the 2004-2005 academic year, Pam Rostal and Dave West ran a unique work-study degree program at New Mexico Highlands University: 20 students using Agile practices to execute real world projects. This story shows what can happen when education goes beyond the ordinary: when people are encouraged to strive for mastery and taught the thinking tools to do so.
-
/articles/Interview-Johnson-Standish-CHAOS/en/smallimage/chaosreport.png)
Interview: Jim Johnson of the Standish Group
Jim Johnson, founder and chairman of the Standish Group, took time out from his vacation to talk with InfoQ editor Deborah Hartmann about his research, and the role of Agile in changing the IT industry. Johnson is best known for creating the CHAOS Chronicles: 12 years of independent research on project performance, including data on over 50,000 completed IT projects.