Agile
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Kanban is the New Scrum
Maybe it’s all the time I spend with startups, but while I strongly value Scrum’s ideas behind self-organizing teams &…
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Are We Agile Yet?
I read somewhere that a large number of software teams think they’re Agile because they do Daily Scrums. Now I…
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5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project FAIL
Far too many Agile development projects fail. It is hard to even accurately measure the number of failures because so…
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Agile Scenarios and Storyboards
User stories are great at capturing product functionality. But they are less suited to describe the user interaction in more…
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To estimate or not to estimate, that is the question
Disparaging those who provide software estimates seems to be a growing sport. At conferences, in blogs and the twitter-verse it…
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Requirements and Specifications
As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product…
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Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics
Product planning is just as important in an agile context as it is in a traditional setting. Unfortunately, some product…
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Telecommuting, Hoteling, and Managing Product Development
There are two sides of this conversation about telecommuting: the employee side and the management side. I hope you stick…
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Maximizing the work NOT done
One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto makes the seemingly paradoxical statement: “the art of maximizing the amount of…
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