Innovate Successfully by Creating a Lean, Minimal Product Investing in a new product always involves risk. We may have targeted the wrong market segment, envisioned the wrong product or the wrong features, or the market may have changed by the time the product is launched. |
Roman Pichler
October 7, 2011 |
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A Productivity Comparison of Kanban and Scrum Charles Suscheck compares the levels of productivity of Scrum and Kanban through a hands-on experiment that he and his team personally participated in. Learn the upsides and warnings about each practice to help you decide what might work best for you and your team on your next project. |
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How to Manage the Hurly-Burly Hubbub of Change Giving yourself, and your team, the necessary time to adapt to and move on from change is the healthiest way to make sure that everyone is back on the same page in a timely manner. Learn how to avoid prolonging the necessary time to "heal" by minimizing turbulence. |
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Load Test Your Website Before Your Customers Do When you release a website or web application, it’s going to face a lot of very public load testing. If it performs poorly, there’s a good chance that you’re going to lose a lot of customers. Colin Mason offers some tips for load testing in order to ensure a better customer experience. |
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Five Steps to Creating Effective Agile Contracts While using an agile approach for projects that involve outside parties can be complex, especially during an audit; living documents and early involvement by all parties involved will help ensure a worry-free process. Learn how expert planning allows for the right path to emerge on its own. |
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Orders of Magnitude in Test Automation Mike Kelly explains the following heuristic approach to help ensure your testing is roughly inline based on orders of magnitude across the various types of automation. It’s not a method for measuring effectiveness. Instead it’s simply a “smell” to tell you when you might need to take a little extra time to make sure you’re focusing your automated testing efforts at the right level. |
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AgileDC Conference - Organizer Podcast at Agile2011
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Come join us at AgileDC on October 26th 2011. This not for profit regional conference aims to have a wide variety of talks, networking, open space, and is one of the few conferences to have a Government track alongside an Agile Engineering track. |
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Dependable vs. Irreplaceable We all like being in demand, feeling wanted, and being dependable. But, we forget that there is a thin line between being dependable and irreplaceable. The result is not only a loss of credibility but also a loss of opportunities |
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Do You Need Titled Architects for Your Agile Programs? Johanna Rothman received a variety of responses to her recent writing on agile architecture. In this article, she attempts to clarify her case for having an architect on some—but not all—agile programs, depending on a number of factors. |
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Are the Five CEO Temptations Limiting Your Leadership Potential? Becoming a CEO isn’t the ultimate goal for the most successful CEOs. It is a status that they use to achieve great things, and they face ongoing temptations that threaten their potential. Here, Laura Brandenburg takes a look at the temptations in Patrick Lencioni’s Five Temptations of a CEO that can limit the potential of not only CEOs, but also anyone in a leadership position. |
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