The Latest

Beyond a Scrum of Scrums: Scaling Up Agile with Kanban[presentation]

Backlogs, story point planning, sprints, and retrospectives-Scrum describes processes that work well at the team level. But more is needed to integrate multiple scrum teams that must work closely together.

Gil Irizarry, Constant Contact Software
Continuous Integration: Do It Continuously[presentation]

No matter when it happens, integrating components is difficult.

Steven List, ThoughtWorks Inc
The Art of User Storytelling[presentation]

Agilists employ user stories as a way to capture user requirements and drive the planning process for iterative and incremental delivery of software.

Fadi Stephan, Excella Consulting
Getting Executive Management on the Agile Bus[presentation]

Much of the focus on agile transitions is on the team. However, the business side of an organization and the managers that lead it are not particularly interested in the mechanisms of agile teams and processes.

Alan Shalloway, Net Objectives
The Secrets of Scrum Success: What the Books Don't Tell You[presentation]

You've heard the hype about Scrum: 300% increases in productivity, huge reductions in defects, happy employees, and delighted customers.

Mitch Lacey, Mitch Lacey and Associates, Inc.
The Business and Test Analysts' Guide to Acceptance Test Driven Development[presentation]

On traditional software teams, business analysts define requirements in batches, describe them in big documents, and deliver them to developers and testers.

Dale Emery, DHE
Agile Requirements Engineering: When User Stories Are Not Enough[presentation]

Agile projects commonly capture customer needs via user stories-placeholders for future conversations about those needs.

Colin Doyle, MKS Inc.
Practices, Principles, and Values: Moving Beyond Dogma to What Works[presentation]

The concept of software process improvement is not new. Many methods have been defined to conduct and pursue improvement. We never seem to lack for “improvement” ideas, as if they are fresh and exciting-which they often are not.

Hillel Glazer, Entinex, Inc.
Deception and Estimating: How We Fool Ourselves[presentation]

Cognitive scientists tell us that we are hardwired for deception-overly optimistic about outcomes. In fact, we surely wouldn't have survived without this trait.

Linda Rising, Independent Consultant
Software Design in the 21st Century[presentation]

Over the past decade or so we've seen important new ideas added to the mix of software design practices to help us produce better software. Design Patterns help us capture the design solutions and reveal a rationale for using them.

Martin Fowler, ThoughtWorks Inc
The Essential Product Owner: Partnering with the Team[presentation]

Over the past decade or so we've seen important new ideas added to the mix of software design practices to help us produce better software. Design Patterns help us capture the design solutions and reveal a rationale for using them.

Bob Galen, iContact
Building Great Teams[presentation]

What allows some teams to deliver results that far exceed expectations? How do these groups differ from most others? What can group members and leaders do to enable these extraordinary experiences?

Geoff Bellman, GMB Associates, Ltd.
Questioning Best Practices: The Story of One Test Team's Transformation[presentation]

John McConda presents the story of a test team that challenged the notion of best practices and came out more focused, efficient, and effective.

John McConda, Moser Consulting
Understanding and Using Code Metrics[presentation]

Have you heard any of these from your development staff or said them yourself?

Joel Tosi, VersionOne, Inc.
Quality Requirements: Succeeding with Waterfall Releases[presentation]

While there is much excitement surrounding agile, many complex or outsourced projects do not fare well under agile.

Filip Syzmanski, HP Software and Solutions

Pages

AgileConnection is a TechWell community.

Through conferences, training, consulting, and online resources, TechWell helps you develop and deliver great software every day.