Agile
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What Scrum, Kanban, RUP, and ITIL All Have In Common (which causes them to fail)
Putting aside the considerable differences in these methods, RUP, CMMI, Scrum, etc are foremost all products, built using a traditional…
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Looking For Leaders In All The Wrong Places
When I was a young developer, there was a re-org in the company. I found myself a team leader. That…
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Hours, Velocity, Silo’d Teams, & Gantts
I’ve been having some email conversations with some project and program managers turned Scrum Masters. In general here’s how things…
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In Agile development planning, a security framework loses out
In Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn explains the different factors that go into prioritizing work on a software development…
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Architects Need a Pragmatic Software Development Process
I have been a non-stop software architect since 2006. During my experience, I realized that it’s really hard to perform…
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An agile methodology for orthodox environments
My company designs and develop mobile and web based banking solutions. Our customers (banks for the most part) are highly…
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Sooner or Later: Deliver Early or Minimize Waste
There’s an obvious but important tension in Lean/Agile development around when to make decisions. Between the fundamental Agile position that…
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Agile Estimating: Story Points and Decay
I’m re-reading Mike Cohn’s Agile Estimating and Planning. It’s the best book I’ve found on this and worth reading, even…
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Measuring your IT OPS – Part 2
In my opening article I stated the importance of measuring IT OPS to provide the underlying framework for a Continous…
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