My publisher, Addison-Wesley, has just made two chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning available for free. Check out Chapter 1, The Purpose of Planning, and Chapter 3, An Agile Approach.
My publisher, Addison-Wesley, has just made two chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning available for free. Check out Chapter 1, The Purpose of Planning, and Chapter 3, An Agile Approach.
Time for another (almost) weekly installment of Interesting Post. Every week I feel like the number of agile related articles was pretty light… but then I go to build this post… and realize there was a ton of great content out there. I guess I ju…
In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel ‘empowered’ by having an equal voice. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word – ‘ridiculous’. [Learn more][1].
[1]: http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/2009/09/equality-team-building.html
The Scrum Team is responsible for the high-quality and timely delivery of sprint commitments in line with the expectations of the Product Manager and Product Owner. The Scrum Team is cross-functional and multi-skilled- they know their strengths and work together to support eachother through challenging times. They’re not all experts in every area, however between them they have a wide range of abilities and areas of expertise. [Learn more][1].
[1]: http://agile101.net/2009/08/12/agile-scrum-team-roles-responsibilities
I like to make agile training as realistic as possible by having the team build working software in a realistic agile setting. So I like to use the game of TicTacToe because everyone knows how to play it and the team can quickly be productive in building and enhancing it.
It recently occurred to me that the [...]