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The Tester’s Role in Agile Planning
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All too often testers passively participate in agile planning. And the results? Important testing activities are missed, late testing becomes a bottleneck, and the benefits of agile development quickly diminish. However, testers can actively advocate customer concerns while helping to... |
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
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The Next Decade of Agile Software Development and Test
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After almost fifteen years of history with agile practices, J.B. Rainsberger sees some alarming trends in our attitudes, practices, and even what we teach about agile. At the same time, he sees some progress in approaches and technologies—e.g., behavior-driven development, naked... |
J.B. Rainsberger, JBRAINS.CA
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The Benefits of Pair Programming This article details a team’s experience in implementing pair programming as a way to get work done as part of its agile transformation. It delves into the many positive results from the pairing experiment, as well as some of the negatives that were encountered, and weighs whether developers think pair programming is a worthwhile endeavor. |
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The Business Analyst Role on Agile Projects
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Agile—a single word that sparked unprecedented confusion in the technology world. When it went agile, did your organization throw out your business analyst team? Have they banned all requirements documentation? Are teams struggling to see the big picture? Brian Watson has encountered... |
Brian Watson, VersionOne
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Comcast XFINITY Home: An Agile Case Study
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Today's mobile application development is a complex endeavor made more difficult by teams often working at cross purposes. Separation of roles and responsibilities leads to intricate technological and personnel dependencies that makes projects challenging. Mark Hashimoto shares personal... |
Mark Hashimoto, Comcast
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User Stories: From Fuzzy to Razor Sharp
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User stories are the basis for products built using agile development. User stories are relatively short, comprised of enough information to start the development process, and designed to initiate further conversation about details. Short doesn’t necessarily mean useful. Ambiguous stories... |
Phil Ricci, Agile-Now
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SAFe Integration Patterns: Scaling with Continuous Collaboration
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“Going agile” at a fifty-person startup is easy; at a 5,000 person ISV it’s impressive; and in a Fortune 500 company it’s often a nightmare. At large scale, the sheer number of legacy systems, stakeholder specific tools, and governance processes can turn even a simple agile deployment... |
Jeff Downs, Tasktop Technologies
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Integrate V&V within Scrum: How Does That Work?
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Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for delivering business value. It is not a Verification and Validation (V&V) approach. So how do we merge Scrum and V&V when a product must be subjected to formal V&V activities? How do we plan V&V work, incorporating it into a... |
Kathryn Aragon, Sandia National Laboratories and Julie Bouchard, Sandia National Laboratories
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How Agile Can We Go? Lessons Learned Moving from Waterfall
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How agile are you? Once you jump off the waterfall and drink from the agile pool, there will probably be varying opinions as to the state of the organization’s agility. Some will be concerned that they are not agile enough; others will think they are agile while still adhering to old... |
Max McGregor, Venafi
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Teaching Pointy-Haired Bosses to be Agile Enablers
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Ryan Ripley says that Scrum failures can often be traced back to management not understanding their role in an agile world. What gets managed during an agile project? How is success measured? Will I keep my job in the transition? Managers have all these questions and more during an agile... |
Ryan Ripley, AgileAnswerMan.com
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