Agile software development
The adoption of an Agile methodology would appear to address issues inherent in the software industry: On-time, in-scope, in-quality and on-budget. Yet if it was so simple and easy wouldn’t we all be doing it? Indeed there are stories of failed Agile adoptions or of Agile teams not being as …
Elizabeth Woodward, Agile Community Leader at IBM, discusses how agile affects innovation, large teams using agile, and the “people” side of agile methods.
You have been doing agile and Scrum for a few years now. With a regular cadence you have retrospectives and a lot of problems and great improvement opportunities are raised but nothing seems to really improve. Stop doing retrospectives!
Several generations of managers have been taught to “Do the right thing, then do it right.” Right. It has a logic all of its own doesn’t it? What’s the use of being highly effective is you are highly effective at the wrong thing? But what if the obsession with doing …
Learn how Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 can help you quickly plan, manage, and track work across your entire team. You’ll explore the new product backlog, sprint backlog, and task boards which can be used to track the flow of work during the course of an iteration.
How often have you built software that matched what your customers asked for, only to find out when you were ready to ship that it was not quite what they wanted? Have you received conflicting requirements from different customers while building a single solution for both?
