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Make Your Tele-Team Work[magazine] Can software development teams that include one or more telecommuters work as effectively as collocated teams? Learn how to overcome common obstacles faced by "tele-teams," illustrated with real-life examples. |
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How Do You Write Good User Stories?[magazine] Expert answers to frequently asked questions. In this issue, David Hussman explains how to write good user stories. |
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Long-Distance Relationships[magazine] A letter from the Better Software magazine editor. |
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Mission Possible: ScrumMaster and Technical Contributor[article] Teams trying out Scrum might not be able to justify a full-time ScrumMaster to the organization, so the role is filled by a contributor on the team. This can be a challenge and, if done incorrectly, a problem. Learn some potential issues to be aware of and how to make the hybrid role work. |
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Are You Leading a Tribe?[article] In today's organizations, everyone is expected to lead. If you've been waiting for a leadership role to come to you, it might be time to step up and seek out your opportunity to be a leader. Look around you: Self-proclaimed leaders are receiving interesting projects, building enviable careers, and being promoted. In this article, we'll take a look at how Seth Godin's book Tribes can provide a useful framework for leading from the ground up. |
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Personality Factors That Influence Core Build and Release Management Practices[article] Leslie Sachs discusses the key people skills essential to appreciating how and which personality factors most impact one's ability to successfully implement core build and release management practices. |
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Differentiating Between Estimating and Committing[article] Russell Pannone writes that there is inherent uncertainty and complexity in system-software development; you just don’t know what you don’t know. In agile and lean, accuracy (the measure of bias) and precision (the measure of spread) are very important when making a commitment for what you are going to get done in an iteration, but not so important when making an estimate for how long you think it will take you to develop and deliver the entire product. |
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Lyssa Adkins - Coaching Agile Teams Agile 2010[article]
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Bob speaks with Lyssa Adkins about her book Coaching Agile Teams. |
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Michael Spayd - Agile 2010 - Coaching Coaches[article]
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Michael Spayd - Agile 2010 - Coaching Coaches |
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The Competition of Agile[article] It is sensible to want to avoid the head-butting sort of competition—that is, arguing for the sake of arguing. But, differing opinions and styles can be a good thing. Competitive forces have driven markets, innovation, and civilization for millennia. Here, Jurgen Appelo takes a look at some of the various approaches to agile development and what they bring to the table. |
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What Are You Doing?[article] Your issue-tracking and version-management systems are powerful tools that you can use to help you manage change and improve team and individual productivity. This article provides some simple advice on how to use your tracking system to be more productive without introducing excessive overhead. |
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Five Imperatives for Application Lifecycle Management[article] Customers are often looking for their software to be built quickly, and to remain competitive, developers have to follow suit. Application management allows for increased productivity by also increasing efficiency. Learn how ALM coordinates people and tools to all work smoothly together. |
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No Group Is a Team on Day One[article] Assembling a group of people and declaring them a team doesn’t make them one. Do you have the conditions necessary for the team to form? What activities have they completed to help them find an identity, their purpose, and how they’ll interact with each other? |
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My Experience with Test-Driven Development[article] Vinay Krishna explains why agile development includes testing and coding concurrently, which is also what test-driven development emphasizes. The transformation from coder to developer to tester is needed in all agile software development projects. |
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How to Make People Feel (Un)Welcome[article] The age-old expression "you never get a second chance to make a first impression" is still true to this day. So often the way we greet people, or fail to greet them, sets an irreversible path of leaving others feel completely unwelcome, even if that wasn't the intention. |
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