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Managing Your Analysis Debt[magazine] What is your project's analysis debt load? What's the difference between good and bad analysis debt? What are causes and remedies for such debt? Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiener explore the concept of analysis debt and consider strategies for prudent investing. |
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Par for the Course[magazine] What can happen over a game of golf? You learn what you don't know, you learn more about what you do know, and you learn to listen to what others know. See how two managers and a caddy team up for some valuable lessons about staying out of the rough. |
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Constructing the Quality Story[magazine] Knowledge doesn't just exist; we build it. Sometimes we disagree on what we've got, and sometimes we disagree on how to get it. Hard as it may be to imagine, the experimental approach itself was once controversial. What can we learn from the disputes of the past? How do we manage skepticism and trust and tell the testing story? |
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We Be Agile: What Does It Mean to Be Agile?[article] Here is a simple exercise for gaining a common understanding and consensus about what it means to you, the team, and the organization to be Agile. |
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Agile Fun and Games[article] I have to admit that when I first started hearing about Extreme Programming and Agile methodologies, I was pretty skeptical. Another software fad that will come and go, I thought. What first started to open up my mind was a conversation that I had with a young developer a number of years ago. I was interviewing him for a position and he was talking about Extreme Programming and I was thinking “Yeah. OK.” Then he said that without Extreme Programming he didn’t think he would still want to be doing development because Extreme Programming had made software development fun again. And that’s when I stopped and thought to myself, “Well, yeah, you know – it should be fun. It’s supposed to be fun.”
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Nanette Brown
November 10, 2009 |
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Fun Driven Development - Building Momentum for Agile Through Games[article] Games, like the ones described on TastyCupcakes.org, provide the opportunity for agile teams to quickly build on a shared experience, realize better ways of working and most importantly, to have fun! |
Michael McCullough
November 9, 2009 |
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Value of Configuration Management by Agile Professionals[article] Mario Moreira surveyed recently surveyed agile professionals to find out just how valuable CM processes and tools are to them. While there was a noticeable difference in opinion between different responder age groups, the overall response was overwhelmingly positive in CM's favor. |
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What is Agile Project Management on a Scrum Project?[article] When traditionally managed organizations first adopt Scrum—an agile project management approach that includes the roles of Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Team Member(s—there is often an assumption that project managers are the default choice to serve in the role of ScrumMaster. But examining the definitions of these roles as found in leading sources suggests that this assumption is probably wrong or at least misguided. In fact, the responsibilities of project management as defined in traditional literature are not aligned with the ScrumMaster role at all. Despite this apparent disconnect, the Scrum framework incorporates more traditional project management practices than is at first apparent. |
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Save Your Sprint! How to Avoid the Three Types of Bad Project Estimates [article] Estimating time is one of the most challenging aspects of Agile. To deliver quality products on time and according to scope not only requires a talented team but also a consistently clear view of the work effort and progress throughout the sprint. |
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Moving to an Agile Testing Environment: What Went Right, What Went Wrong[article]
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Ray Arell read an agile project management book on a long flight to India, and, like all good reactionary development managers, he was sold. Join Ray on a retrospective of what went right and, more importantly, what went wrong. |
TechWell Staff
November 6, 2009 |
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Marine Corps Principles of Leadership[article]
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Retired Marine colonel and long-time test consultant Rick Craig describes how using the Marine Corps Principles of Leadership will help you become a better leader and, as a result, a better test manager or tester. |
TechWell Staff
November 5, 2009 |
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The Role of the Agile Coach[article] One of the new roles introduced by agile software development is that of the team coach. Until agile came along, coaches were confined to the executive suite or the sports field. As with any new role, it will take awhile before it is fully understood and scoped. Agile teams can—and do—exist without the coach role, but such teams do not necessarily achieve peak performance. |
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QA Is Not Evil[magazine] A software tester re-examines the role of software testers in quality assurance work, helping implement software development processes. If testers are knowledgeable, helpful, and supportive, they may be in the best possible position to help the team improve its software development process. |
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Outside the Strike Zone[magazine] In a counterpoint to his previous Technically Speaking column, Lee explains why holding fast to one's beliefs is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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Telling Better User Stories[magazine] While the idea of a user story is simple on the surface, there are challenges to working with them. User story mapping is a useful way to organize, decompose, and prioritize user stories. |
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