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On Visualizing Iterative Waterfall

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Karl

Go read Jon Moore’s latest piece “The Power of Visualizing Iterative Waterfall”: “the most powerful reason to start visualizing the flow is that it shows you exactly what parts of your process you should change, and when. There’s nothing like … Continue reading →

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An introduction to Kanban

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Karl

Jeff Patton put together an introduction to Kanban that has helped me become familiar with some of its concepts on his blog, AgileProductDesign.com, “Kanban Development Oversimplified”.

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Some light reading (and research) on non-functional requirements in Agile/Scrum

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Karl

Agile Modeling: Introduction to User Stories Mike Cohn’s Blog: Non-functional Requirements as User Stories aqris: Representing non-functional requirements with user stories wikiwiki: Non Functional Requirements Agile Coaching: Non-Functional Requirements: are user stories useful? Artima: Johan Peeters: Dreams and Nightmares Representing … Continue reading →

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Two on project process

Posted on November 29, 2008 by Karl

Aaron Held, coworker at CIM, “A House With No Front Door Keeps you off the streets”: Scrum and Agile are desinged to solve this by making it a team effort. So in Scrum it is not the “developers” that build … Continue reading →

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More on Bad Agile

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Karl

Steve Yegge talks about Google’s development (circa 2006) process – a process that is focused on being agile – and riffs on just how bad “Bad Agile” can be: Good Agile, Bad Agile: Bad Agile hurts teams in several ways. … Continue reading →

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Dealing with technical debt

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Karl

codeartisan: Jon Moore: Cracking down on technical debt: Generally, as the folks with the technical ability to recognize it, it is the development team’s responsibility to try to avoid accruing technical debt while producing product. Failing that, it is their … Continue reading →

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“Rescuing Scrum teams keeps me in business”

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Karl

Oh boy, does this sound familiar. James Shore, consultant, lays down just how bad it gets when you ‘go Agile’ and don’t do so correctly: The Decline and Fall of Agile: Without continuous, incremental design, Scrum teams quickly dig themselves … Continue reading →

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