http://agileprogramming.org Learn all about scrum & agile programming Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:43:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a blog post on the SDTImes website (“Agile Making ALM Teams Work Faster, More Open”), Jeff Feinman takes a moment to share one aspect of a larger article he’s working on about agile life-cycle management (ALM), but that one aspect is a big one. According to Feinman, as he’s ... http://agileprogramming.org/everybody-loves-agile/ Right now, one of the hottest topics in the Scrum community is whether or not traditional, PMI-style project management can coexist with Scrum or agile methods. Mike Cohn, an agile guru and an early champion of Scrum, believes they can be compatible, but introducing new ways of working needs to ... http://agileprogramming.org/are-traditional-management-practices-and-scrum-incompatible-not-so-says-cohn/ Longtime readers of this blog know that I’m a big proponent of Danube’s project management tool ScrumWorks Pro. The company released a major release back in August (ScrumWorks Pro 4) that added some exceptionally flexible program management capabilities to the tool, but, since then, they’ve been issuing point releases at ... http://agileprogramming.org/danube-builds-community/ If you’re a seasoned agile practitioner, you’ve likely got a whole treasure trove of best practices at your disposal. But if you’re just getting started and trying to make a clean break with traditional management practices, you might benefit from this list of “26 Hints for Agile Software Development” compiled ... http://agileprogramming.org/helpful-hints/ On this blog, we spend a lot of time dissecting the details of agile project management, even arguing over fine shades of distinction. But in an InfoQ article titled “Agile’s ‘One Essential Ingredient,’” Mike Bria reports on Mark Schumann’s wide-angle view of agile. Considering the single most important ingredient to ... http://agileprogramming.org/distilling-the-agile-mindset/ Lean has been a popular topic on this site lately, so I wanted to direct readers to a free report that Forrester Research recently published to coincide with their annual Business Technology Forum. This year’s theme is “Lean: The New Business Technology Imperative,” which focuses on how Lean can help ... http://agileprogramming.org/free-report-on-lean/ Finally, it seems agile tools are catching up to the real world demands placed on organizations managing large, complex projects with agile methods—especially those companies who are developing products with shared components. While agile tools have done a great job of connecting teams to help keep even un-collocated team members ... http://agileprogramming.org/the-first-tool-for-the-enterprise/ If you’ve ever had to convince a manager of the value of agile programming techniques, such as test-driven development and pair programming, you know what an uphill battle that can be. But Mike Bria at InfoQ has just posted an article titled “How TDD and Pairing Improve Production,” which takes ... http://agileprogramming.org/in-defense-of-agile-programming/ I’m always on the lookout for exercises and activities that illustrate some of the harder-to-convey issues in Scrum and agile. I just read a blog post by Certified Scrum Trainer Michael James that provides instructions for an exercise called “Planning a Party” that perfectly communicates the value of writing strong ... http://agileprogramming.org/let%e2%80%99s-have-a-planning-party/ I’ve written on how the Lean Manufacturing movement has helped shape agile development practices before on this blog, but I just came across a blog that gives readers an inside view into how Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System, in particular, actually look in a contemporary Toyota factory. Certified ... http://agileprogramming.org/an-inside-report-on-the-toyota-production-system/