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Snapshot: A Team’s First Steps into Shared Ownership Karen Favazza Spencer writes of the time her team members had to modernize and expand the capabilities of their legacy system. In this situation, Karen took on the role of ScrumMaster, implemented several helpful agile techniques, and empowered the team to share leadership of the project with management. |
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How to Make Collocation Work for You Gil Zilberfeld recounts his experience with collocation during his time at Typemock, and explains how collocation can benefit your team. In modern agile discussions, we struggle with how to work with distributed teams around the globe. The truth is that it’s easy to break stuff just by moving part of the team to the next room. |
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Agile Palooza DC - Ian Culling - Version One internal development and practices
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Agile Palooza DC - Ian Culling - Version One internal development and practices |
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ADP West 2010 - Payson Hall - Risk, Reward and Public Sector Contracts
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ADP West 2010 - Payson Hall - Risk, Reward and Public Sector Contracts |
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ADPEast 2010: Michael Mah—Agile Teams by the Numbers—Software Metrics and the Big Giant Database
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Bob speaks with Michael Mah about agile and metrics at the ADPEast 2010 conference. |
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Getting the Most Out of Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team Shane Hastie and Johanna Rothman explain the challenges that come with distance, be it cultural, social, linguistic, temporal, or geographic. If you work to reinforce your collaboration habits every day, your geographically distributed agile team will thank you. |
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On Sumo, Architecture, and Enterprise Agile In order to be successful in the ring, a sumo wrestler needs to maintain a heavy body weight and at the same time be in peak physical condition. Just as these Japanese athletes have to find the right balance through a well thought-out combination of diet and training regimen, software development organizations need a balanced approach to implementing application architecture on agile projects. |
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Programming with an Agile Mindset Agile is recognized as a system-software development approach used to get quick feedback to keep the customer involved at every stage, build a disciplined team, and have working software at any given point in time. Sameer Arora writes on how things can fall out of place when agility on the programming side is ignored. |
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Agile and Federal Governance—A Look at Contracts and Earned Value Management Richard Cheng explores whether or not federal governance controls are ready for agile implementations. If the federal government continues to implement agile without losing agile’s fundamental concepts, contractors and the government will grow in their understanding and ability to implement effective projects and deliver value iteratively and incrementally. |
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Identifying and Improving Bad User Stories A written user story is a very short narrative—a sentence or two—describing some small piece of functionality that has business value. User stories are intended to foster collaboration and communication, but writing these short narratives poorly can negate agile’s flexibility. Charles Suscheck and Andrew Fuqua explain some common failure patterns that will help you focus on the right role, value, and business functionality when writing stories. |
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