One of my customers has a compelling enough product for me to debut a post here.   more »

Come on Steve get your finger out!   more »

there are many teams who would say they run iterations or sprints when in fact they are running increments or phases and therefore missing out on the real benefit of iterations or sprints   more »

More often than not the management is doing everything it can to adapt to changing circumstances but they cannot make that effective without the full support of the team, and the team isn't going to offer its support if they are disenfranchised by the management's apparent incompetence. Tricky!   more »

You certainly will find it challenging to make use of the convergence and consensus aspect of estimating this way if it’s just you all on your lonesome – however you can still use the sequence that is on the cards   more »

I have been involved in setting up a new forum called the UK ColdFusion Business Group with Claude Englebert of Adobe. The group is business focused and not concerned with technical aspects of the platform - the idea is to promote the benefits of ColdFusion in an Agile environment and indeed in generating an agile environment.
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There is not one single mention of the Customer. Its a shame but I assume this is because developers generally don't have a relationship with the customer   more »

Its not just the human that is agile – all of life is agile – capable even of adapting to the catastrophic change brought about by the KT boundary event that rid us of the dinosaurs.   more »

I'm based in the UK and unlikely to attend unless I see something that really motivates me to argue with the boss to pay for the jaunt rather than visit one of my clients in the Middle East or Africa.   more »

These days I only suggest reading the book to people who come to me and express a particular interest in the subject.   more »

The report is called "As Agile Goes Mainstream It’s Time for Metrics"   more »

PJ Media is owned by Peter Jones and is dedicated to delivering high quality, valuable new media software with an agile approach   more »

Mike Cohn is wrting a new book and is seeking feedback from the agile community on the first draft of the first chapter   more »

I hope this helps to convey that boundaries and structure do exist in the agile process. In order for it to work properly agile needs to be just as disciplined as any other software development process so as for those who feel “agile is a bit to ad-hoc” or “a bit too loose” – maybe they don’t understand it well enough.   more »

People who are new to Agile often ask "what's a good agile book to get started?" It's a question that comes up all the time on blogs and forums. I think an Agile Book Review dedicated resource is what's needed.   more »

...the word concentric assits the concept that all the processes in agile "have a common center" - that being quality and delivery...   more »

A problem that can often occur in planning poker is a stalemate situation - i.e. the same cards are played by each player for more than one round without a consensus being reached   more »

If you're involved in planning and managing software development read this book and it will alter your mind.   more »

so rare and in such high demand - you'll be lucky to get it for less than £70. The sign of a very, very good book I'd say   more »

If anyone plays a ? card this should be taken as an indication that they have something important to say and therefore should be given the floor first in that round...   more »

As part of what ever self organising means - and I accept that it’s widely debated - surely a team would be expected to provide some statement relating to its function that allows its co-operatives to have confidence in it.   more »

Once a User Story has been added its possible to start entering Confirmation notes immediately   more »

Once a User Story has been added its possible to start entering Conversation notes immediately   more »

With an Agile approach testing becomes a constant activity that is all about asking a whole range of questions and keeping them front of mind at all times   more »

As a general rule in planning its good to employ practices that mitigate against presumption influencing reality and this is well illustrated by the success that Planning Poker can bring to the software development process.   more »

Introducing the daily stand-up to a team has its challenges so this article offers advice on how to facilitate that change and make the scrum more effective.   more »

In previous articles in this series I’ve discussed how to pull together a simple agile approach based around Card Conversation Confirmation. In part 5 I want to illustrate how this can be introduced in a traditional lifecycle.   more »

So what is it that is so complex about answering this question? Well - maybe the traditional project management role needs to be adapted to fit the agile world - the old dog needs to learn new tricks perhaps.   more »

If a team wants to become agile it must have a reason for wanting to do so - there must be something not going to plan - something broken about the process - or just a desire to perform better - the team can only know if this is a success by measuring it - just a little.   more »

Rizwan.Tayabali recently posted a blog on waterfall v agile which I interpreted very much as process v people.   more »

From day 1 – why do you decide to become agile – because it will bring benefits – how will you know these have been realised – you will need to measure them – which should be straight forward assuming its some measurement you’re not happy with that made you decide to become agile to fix it in the first place.   more »

I would point out that the product backlog isn't much more than a list - and is only going to be as complicated as you make it   more »