Archive for November, 2007
Dilbert – Agile Programming
Posted by Christophe on November 30, 2007
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Mary Poppendieck on The Role of Leadership in Software Development
Posted by Christophe on November 30, 2007
Mary presented a fantastic overview of leadership through time and how lean looks at the question.
While on one Scrum side, independent powerless process leaders (scrummaster) are key to the product development cycle, Mary describe the opposite lean approach where process leaders don’t exist but are rather embodied by strong functional manager.
Mary recently responded to a related post I made on the leandevelopment yahooo group pointing to Kaoru Ishikawa’s “What is Totally Quality Control? The Japanese Way” where he says:
- The fundamental principle of successful management is to allow subordinates to make full use of their ability.
- Top managers and middle managers must be bold enough to delegate as much authority as possible. That is the way to establish respect for humanity as your management philosophy.
A fascinating different view from the “traditional” scrum way.
Watch the video on infoQ. It will make you think…
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Mike Cohn on “Agile Estimation”
Posted by Christophe on November 13, 2007
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Ken Beck on “Ease at Work”
Posted by Christophe on November 13, 2007
Kent Beck’s one-hour talk on “Ease at Work” from 2006 addressed those of us who spend energy silently fretting: “…but I can’t actually say that!” He maintained that there’s something profoundly wrong when frustrated developers ask, “Why do I need to turn off parts of myself to work here?” Beck explored getting off what he called the “genius-shithead rollercoaster,” a pattern that requires us to either be heroes at work… or shmucks, because we can’t be heroes. His advice: just be yourself at work.
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Agile Styles: Feature Driven Development and the Crystal Methodologies
Posted by Christophe on November 11, 2007
Prominent practitioners and writers introduced four popular approaches at Agile2006 in the “Agile Styles” talk. In the first half of the presentation, Alistair Cockburn talked about his Crystal Methodologies and David J. Anderson presented Feature Driven Development (FDD)
See the video here
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David Hussman on Helping Organizations Adopt Agile
Posted by Christophe on November 11, 2007
David Hussmann “Agile Geek at Large” spoke with InfoQ about his approach to coaching teams adopting Agile, including how to customize it for different kinds of organizations, and some common factors to retain, to achieve lasting success.
See the video here
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Hubert Smits on ” How To Plan Projects With Distributed Teams”
Posted by Christophe on November 11, 2007
Hubert Smits will give a hands-on overview of the activities that are involved in larger agile projects. Larger projects stretch out over more then a few months and have more then a single team involved. Things get more complex when the teams are not collocated. Hubert has based the talk on his paper “Multi Level Planning for Agile Projects” and presents a practical implementation of the planning levels. The experience he uses in the presentation is taken from his work as an agile coach for Rally Software Development, which brings him to projects with teams scattered across the globe: the US, Europe, Middle East and Far East.
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Scott Ambler on “Database Refactoring”
Posted by Christophe on November 11, 2007
Like other leaders in the Agile community, Scott Ambler is passionate about expanding Agile practices to include all contributors to software success. Recently he has been teaching teams how to integrate database roles into the iterative, incremental rhythm of their teams. InfoQ captured Ambler’s talk on Database Refactoring at Agile2006.
See the video here
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Jean doesn’t like Mondays [update]
Posted by Christophe on November 5, 2007
The video of Jean’s presentation at Agile 07 is now listed at the bottom of the original article.
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Agile Tester – Book in progress
Posted by Christophe on November 4, 2007
Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory are working on a new book on agile testing.
If you are interested in reviewing chapters as the books goes along, check out their web site.
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