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Sprint Zero
Friday, September 26, 2008 2:24 AM

Some teams use a Sprint 0 to prepare their product backlog, the infrastructure (development environment, CI server), ... .Is this part of Scrum? Is it useful? http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/sprint_zero Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, Integration, Development, Agile, SCRUM, information worker, .net, XP

Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls
Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:49 AM

InfoQ interview with Martin Fowler: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/fowler-scrum-interview;jsessionid=947B25BAC575C404042BA6215B59DDAB Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Development, Agile, SCRUM, Practices

Stop-the-Line Issues
Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:00 AM

This is a very brief and good read forming a part of the concept of technical debt. The author explains why it is important to fix bugs as discovered and not leave them piling up in a bug tracking system. I tend to agree with this approach. http://community.ative.dk/blogs/ative/archive/2007/01/29/The-Waste-of-Defects-_2D00_-Bugs-are-Stop_2D00_the_2D00_Line-Issues... Read More...

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Filed under: C#, Development, programming, Agile, SCRUM, XP, Kanban, Technical Debt

Scrum-ban
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:03 AM

Corey Ladas has written an interesting paper titled Scrum-ban in which he describes how a Scrum team might introduce the lean practice of kanban. He goes on to describe an evolutionary process, which if taken far enough, replaces most of Scrum. Even for those who don't want to scrap Scrum and go lean, the paper provides a useful view into what kanban is and... Read More...

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Filed under: Development, programming, Agile, SCRUM, Practices, Kanban

Agile and Risk
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:46 AM

Article on how agile practices manage and possibly eliminate risk in the development cycle. http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=COL&ObjectId=11133&tth=DYN&tt=siteemail&iDyn=2 Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! |... Read More...

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SCRUM and how to handle interuptions
Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:33 AM

Here is Geoff Watts take on how interuptions during a SCRUM sprint should be dealt with: http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/91-production-support-and-scrum Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: Development, programming, Design, Agile, SCRUM

DDD in practice
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:37 AM

Found this very good article on infoq by Srini Penchikala on Domain Driven Design and the practice implementation of the concept. Even a sample has been included. Read more here: http://www.infoq.com/articles/ddd-in-practice Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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V1:Agile Team
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:22 AM

VersionOne has released V1:Agile Team. This is a product aimed at small development teams to enable them to get Agile fast. As VersionOne states "much beter than a spreadsheet". http://www.versionone.com/VersionOneTeam.asp Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Collective code ownership
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:36 PM

Article on Infoq.com around the good and bad of implementing collective code ownership as part of your Agile implementation: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/weaknesses_collective_code;jsessionid=FE9DD28338F050DA716815E4A8B3D9C5 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Scaling SCRUM
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:15 AM

Nice article on infoq.com on how SCRUM will scale to fit the team's needs when each team member has a clear understanding of the principles of the SCRUM process: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/04/scaling-scrum Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

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Filed under: BizTalk, MOSS, C#, Development, programming, Agile, methodologies, SCRUM