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Empowering Agile Teams

Teams, when truly empowered, will always make better decisions than any one individual. Where can you empower teams as you adopt agile?

Jean Tabaka's picture Jean Tabaka
December 29, 2011
Agile 2011: Ward Cunningham—Agile Manifesto, Ten Years Later and the Federated Wiki
Podcast

Bob Payne chats with Ward about the tenth anniversary of the Agile Manifesto and his newest wiki project.
Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
December 28, 2011
Taking DevOps Mainstream

In this article, Shawn Edmondson describes how the rise of DevOps can be measured right alongside the rise of cloud in its level of mainstream acceptance. Learn how DevOps takes a common sense approach to development while using agile methodologies and automation at the same time.
Shawn Edmondson
December 28, 2011
Agile Leadership for Mid-Managers

Len Whitmore explores how the growth of agile changes the roles, responsibilities, and titles of mid-managers more so than any other management group, because agile practices require more leadership and less of what is considered traditional management techniques.
Len Whitmore
December 28, 2011
man with cloudy glasses The Zero-Defect Vision: Error-proofing Your Way to Quality

Bob Schatz helps you develop strategies to eliminate errors and prevent defects in your product or service.
Bob Schatz's picture Bob Schatz
December 22, 2011
Ten Proven Ways to Demotivate Your Team

In this lightning talk from STAREAST 2011, Randy Rice offers ten proven ways to de-motivate your team, make sure you're getting the very least productivity out of them, and potentially lose them altogether.
Randy Rice
December 16, 2011
Configuration Management and DevOps with Jez Humble and Bob Aiello

In this excerpt from an interview recorded at this year's Better Software and Agile Development Practices East conferences, authors Bob Aiello and Jez Humble discuss the challenges and the rewards of instituting configuration management and DevOps practices.
Bob Aiello's picture Bob Aiello
December 15, 2011
adzic cover Specification by Example: Collaborating on a Scope without High-Level Control

Understanding what the business users are trying to achieve can significantly help you focus the project on things that really matter. In this excerpt from Gojko Adzic's book Specification by Example, the author offers some tips for effectively collaborating on the project scope when you don’t have high-level control of the project.
Gojko Adzic's picture Gojko Adzic
December 13, 2011
Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile

Johanna Rothman has worked with several management teams who want her to train them or their project managers to take over the agile training. While on the surface this doesn't seem an unreasonable request, when one considers the self-managing, self-organizing nature of an agile team, the incongruity of this thinking begins to shine through.
Johanna Rothman's picture Johanna Rothman
December 13, 2011
man with head on keyboard How to Give an Accurate Answer

Scott Ames explains the Test Requirements Agile Metric and offers a real-world example of its use in software estimation.
Scott Ames's picture Scott Ames
December 13, 2011

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