Posts Tagged ‘agile’

Feedbackloops in Software Development

February 28, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
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Since feedback is a form of communication, excessive feedback will have the effect like an explosion in communication paths and will eventually produce more noise than signal. Any feedback loop in the system must help facilitate the management of change and efficiently adapt requirements along the the way. If this is not the case for [...]

Software Craftsmanship Manifesto

January 22, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
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I have just received a new book: “Apprenticeship Patterns“: Skimming through the first pages I noticed the words in the 3rd column extending from the points in the 2nd column and thought, ‘Hmm, I have heard about these 2nd column points’… The following table popped up in my mind, which I would like to share [...]

The Ballpoint Game – A Scrum Simulation

October 29, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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I recently played the ballpoint game for the first time and was impressed… … how clearly it demonstrates the different phases of a team going through the ‘storming, norming and performing’-phases for everyone – even for management spectators. … how the iteration-rhythm helps to keep focus and increase the team performance to a very high and predictable level. … how easy it [...]

Generalizing Specialists, Agile Heros

March 25, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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Inspired by the Podcast ‘Tips and Advice – Manifesto for Agile Software Development‘ in which Bob Payne and George Dinwiddie discuss the points made in the Agile Manifesto and talk about agile environments and mechanics. If you would like to discover the power of agile teams you should definitely check this one out! They also [...]

Bureaucracy is not Discipline

November 22, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
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Sometimes you come accross something and pause thinking ‘I have experienced exactly that’. So it happend when I read Scott Ambler’s post ‘Bureaucracy Isn’t Discipline’. Here are the main points and in my view ammunition for philosophical discussions: Successful agile practices demand great discipline and require significant skill and experience to actually get stuff done. [...]

Survey 2008: ‘State of Agile Development’

September 1, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
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VersionOne have published their 3rd Annual ‘State of Agile Development’ survey: Results are available on this page or as pdf. Overview of topics covered: State of agile methods. Mix of participanting companies. Reasons for adopting agile methods. Concerns against it. Practices applied. Reasons for failures. Where agile creates value. What tools are used.

Make Your Projects Transparent

August 12, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
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As projects and teams I am working on get more interwoven and organizational issues and management processes are gaining more and more traction on the 3 project dimensions time, budget and quality, I was thinking about what I would do as a manager in charge to let steam off the many issues we were facing [...]

The Chicken and Pig Analogy

August 12, 2008 by marco · 3 Comments
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If you engage in agile development methods, sooner or later you will come accross the ‘Chicken and Pig’ analogy. It’s purpose is to depict the different levels of commitment of project stakeholders. It summs up like this: A chicken and a pig decide to start a restaurant. The chicken suggests to serve bacon and eggs. [...]