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  • Q&A with Gil Zilberfeld on Agile Product Planning and Management

    InfoQ did an interview with Gil Zilberfeld about better ways to do product planning and tracking, his thoughts about #noestimates, including value in product planning discussions, and how to improve decision making in product development.

  • Chuck Cobb on the Role of an Agile PMO

    InfoQ did an interview with Charles about the role of the PMO in an agile organization.

  • How BDD Has Helped to Address Communication Problems and Improve Collaboration

    Behavior driven development (BDD) can be used to improve communication between testers, developers and the business. For example you can use given-when-then scenarios to develop test scripts and at the same time define the requirements of the system. BDD involves all team members and helps them to think about the product.

  • Implementing Agile in Data Warehouse Projects

    This post talks about using an agile implementation for data warehouse projects.

  • What is Blocking Adoption of Servant Leadership

    Although the world has changed we still worship ideas from ancient management heroes says Tomasz Wykowski. Our behavior changes quite slowly. To get servant leadership adopted in organizations you need to start from yourself and be an example. Give trust to people and respect them, and invite them to change.

  • The Need for a Product Champion

    Ron Jeffries recently posted about the need for a Product Champion, someone who knows the customer marketplace, who can be accountable for maximizing success. He discusses how in many Scrum, XP and "Agile" teams the Product Owner is not adequate for the task and that by taking the perspective of a Product Champion they can deliver great outcomes.

  • Missing Test Competencies in Agile

    Fran O'Hara's lessons learned integrating testing in agile teams, in particular ensuring required test competencies are in place. Full test integration in an agile team is not as simple as mixing a couple of testers in the team, instead multiple working practices and skills are needed for delivering quality applications in an agile world.

  • How a Scrum Master Helped a Team to Increase Their Agility

    Here's an experience story from a tester who decided to move onward and become a Scrum master to help her team to become more agile, with learnings from their agile journey and pieces of advice for doing change in organizations.

  • Playing the Product Owner Value Game

    The product owner value game is a card game for teams. The objective of the game is to deliver as much value as possible. Teams learn to prioritize backlogs, plan iterations, and deliver results. The game helps teams to talk about agile principles, and exchange experiences.

  • Adoption of Agile in Eastern Europe

    The gap in agile adoption between Eastern Europe and the US and Western Europe is becoming smaller. Scrum is the most widespread framework, Kanban adoption is growing and SAFe, LeSS, DAD are trending. The way that companies are transitioning to agile is significantly different in Eastern Europe.

  • Becoming More Transparent Helps to Manage Work

    The Agile Testing Day Netherlands 2015 conference devotes a full day track to talented Dutch agile youngsters to share their experiences. Tamara de Paus talked about how to organize your work and be more transparent. An interview about the changes that were done by the team to manage work and create transparency, what worked and what didn't, and the things they learned along the way.

  • Importance of Courageous Communicators in Agile Organizations

    It is very important to have courageous communicators in agile teams. Senior leadership should support the role of courageous communicators.

  • Various Aspects of Definition of "Done"

    This post talks about the definition of "done" at various levels: story, sprint, release, etc. Daniel Gullo shares his experience on using definition of "done".

  • Why BDD Can Save Agile

    Matt Wynne, founder at Cucumber Ltd spoke at QCon London 2015 on how BDD can leverage the benefits of Agile on teams struggling with common patterns like lack of predictability, communication and quality.

  • Being a Part of Great Scrum Team

    This post talks about how does it feel to be a part of great scrum team.

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