If you don't get the right requirements - and get them right - any method will do. In practice, requirements using agile practices helps you to not only

First, I am guilty and struggle to loose weight that I need to loose. Having had our 4th child, sleep seems to trump the early morning work-out. However, most of the time it is because I lack discipline to prioritize … Continue reading →

In Scrum, velocity is how much product backlog effort a team can handle in one sprint. This can be estimated by viewing previous sprints, assuming the team composition and sprint duration are kept constant. Velocity is used in sprint planning to f...

Distributing Scrum projects isn’t easy. Agile values encourage face-to-face communication and frequent feedback between team members. But for those who seek the benefits of Agile – frequent releases, less waste, high emphasis on value – on larger, more complex projects, this video presents some technical practices that help retain the spirit of co-location in a distributed environment. Video producer: http://www.thoughtworks.com/

The metaphor of technical debt is widely used in software project management in general and especially Scrum. This article written by Philippe Kruchten, Robert L. Nord and Ipek Ozkaya try to put this concept in perspective, discussing how it has become somewhat diluted lately with its extension to other areas than code or its associations with tools like static code analyzers. Using only tools to measure technical debt might lead to leaving aside potential technical debt items that are undetectable by tools like structural or architectural debt. They argue we need ...

AccuRev announced the latest version of GitCentric (formally known as Kando), bridging the Git revision control system with AccuRev’s intelligent stream approach to enterprise software development.

When some people talk about the future of Agile approaches, and Scrum in particular, they consider the spread of Scrum outside of IT. To properly accompany the Agile transition to another world, I think that asking how to move Agile outward from I...

Codice Software, creators of the enterprise oriented Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) called Plastic SCM, today launched Semantic Merge, the world's first language-aware source code merge tool. Using advanced merge technology built into Codice Software's signature product, Plast ...

The Agile Atlas is a web site supported by the Scrum Alliance which is an information resource for Scrum and Agile practitioners. The purpose of this site is to provide an “encyclopedia” of information about Agile and related methods. Although the site is presently supported only by the Scrum Alliance, it is not intended to be a Scrum-only site in any way. We propose to provide as broad and deep a view of all the information topics relating to Agile, Lean, and even plan-based methods. We propose to cover as many ...

WANdisco, a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced that fully tested and certified binaries for open source Apache Subversion releases 1.6.21 and 1.7.9, are now available from its webs ...

Please don't excommunicate me! This article may seem a little Machiavellian, because it is. There's a lot of soft stuff talked about business change. Anyone who's implementing Scrum in a Waterfall-centric organization will understand that the rea...

In his seminal book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers defines “legacy code” as code without tests. Unfortunately this is exactly what my team wound up creating towards the end of our Groovy/Grails project. We were hoping that our Selenium tests would cover both the JavaScript in the browser and the Groovy code in [...]

Hi! I'd like to remind you of the Mini XP Day Benelux conference, which will take place on Friday April 26th in Mechelen (Belgium). The program features 12

I will be in London, delivering two one-day workshops: Start Your Agile Project Right, and a Coaching Master Class on May 16 and 17, 2013. You don't have to do

I wouldn't normally mention a London event but this is a rare chance to meet up with one of my heroes, Johanna Rothman.

If you read the url below you will see that Johanna is running 2 workshops in London this May 16 and 17.  

http://www.jrothman.com/2013/04/join-me-in-london-may-16-17-2013-for-project-management-and-coaching-workshops/

What you'll discover - when you click - is that the first is on Starting or Restarting your Agile Project Right and the second is on Coaching for Technical Leaders.

They're a good, fair price.

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I am hoping to go (although I'm meant to be in Moscow the day after … so … I'll see how things pan out).

The cleverness and dexterity of Egyptian workmanship, as evidenced in the pyramids, is magnificent. In them we can see the unlimited human capacity for imagination and architecture. Even today, researchers still study the organizational chart and ...

Just published and now available: http://goo.gl/bWHsC Devoted to Agile Teams and teamwork.

As Agile has grown it has become clear that it requires a more business focus. This webinar series provides an overview of Agile from both a business, team

Introduction Contracting and billing models have always been a point of debate in the IT world. Fixed price or time and material? Which one to select? Both models have been criticized for their biased features toward vendor or customer, but this ...