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Collaborative Leadership: A Secret to Agile Success[article]
Video
Whether you are a senior manager, product owner, customer, ScrumMaster, or an individual contributor, Pollyanna Pixton's collaborative principles will empower you and everyone on your team to become better leaders and deliver the business value that stakeholders deserve. |
Pollyanna Pixton
March 27, 2009 |
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Navigating Conflict[magazine] On good agile teams, conflict is frequent and viewed as normal. On great agile teams, conflict is constant and welcome as a catapult to high performance. What can we do to help teams chart their course through conflict so that it turns into a constructive force for greatness? |
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Understanding Software Performance Testing Part 1[magazine] Most people don't fully understand the complexities and scope of a software performance test. Too often performance testing is assessed in the same manner as functional testing and, as a result, fails miserably. In this four-part series we will examine what it takes to properly plan, analyze, design, and implement a basic performance test. This is not a discussion of advanced performance techniques or analytical methods; these are the basic problems that must be addressed in software performance testing. |
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Tips and Advice - Time Boxes[article]
Podcast
This podcast features another great Agile Toolkit discussion had by Bob and George as the two delve into the importance of time boxing when dealing with an agile development project. We invite you to join them learn more about this concept. |
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Deep Agile Conference 2009 - Nancy Van Schooenderwoert, James Grenning[article]
Podcast
Bob interviews Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and James Grenning about Deep Agile Conference 2009. |
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Are You a Good Listener?[article] Some people freely admit that they're not good listeners. But many who claim to be good listeners aren't. That's because they fall short in a critical aspect of listening. In this week's column, Naomi Karten offers ideas and examples that will help you be-and be perceived as-a good listener. |
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Tips and Advice - Self Organizing Teams[article] Bob interviews George Dinwiddie about self-organizing teams. |
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Coaching and Producing[article] David Hussman applies lessons he learned as a music producer to his current position as an agile coach. An excerpt of this article was originally published in the March 2009 issue of the Iterations eNewsletter. |
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What Software Developers Can Learn from Their Cafeteria[article] Did you know that Starbucks sells a cup size called "short"? It's a small cup that is less expensive than the other cup sizes. They never mention it on their menu; you have to know it exists before you can order one. Why? By having a smaller, cheaper option, they give their budget-conscious customers an opportunity to pay for coffee rather than go without. This kind of thinking has important repercussions to software developers. |
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White Paper: Graphical UI Testing Checklist[article] A GUI as we now know is a computer-interface that uses images, typed text, and icons on the screen that replace many of the functions of the keyboard. This paper explains different validations need to be used while testing GUI. |
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Refactoring Doesn’t Mean Rewrite[article] Peter Schuh writes that it is not a good thing that the use of the term refactoring has grown so common, which makes him cringe every time he hears a business person say the word. Refactoring is meant to be one skill of many that is second-nature to a journeyman programmer. |
Peter Schuh
March 9, 2009 |
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The Three Pillars of Executive Support for Agile Adoption[article] As an executive sponsoring the adoption of agile methods, you've already spent dollars for training and coaching. You've talked to the management team and the rest of the organization about the need and rationale for using agile development methods. But your job isn't over. Communication and budgetary support are necessary, but not sufficient for your organization to realize the benefits of agile methods. If you want the transition to succeed you must provide on-going support. The good news is, that doesn't mean you must keep handing over money. The bad news is that what's required of you is much harder than writing a check. |
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Adopting Agile: Hidden Benefits[article] When XDx's Software Group adopted an agile approach to application development, we achieved the fastest development time on any software project in the company's history. While we expected to shorten development time and reduce costs, we discovered that agile provides several hidden benefits. Beyond its value as a software development methodology, our agile platform is a tool that enables and improves communication with our users which has been a key success factor, because user groups have a hard time thinking in the software development terms imposed by the traditional waterfall method of upfront specification. This improved communication has helped everyone to let go of complete up-front specifications and trust the agile process. |
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Quality Management in the World of Scrum and Agile IT System Development[article] Russell Pannone was asked, "Does quality assurance have a place in agile software development?" His knee-jerk answer was yes, but what form and function quality management takes depends on many factors. |
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Responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner in the Enterprise[article] In part two of this three-part article, Dean Leffingwell describes the responsibilities of the enterprise product owner and discusses the attributes of a good product owner. |