Agile software development
The Agile movement shifted the relationship between clients and developers in a profound way. In waterfall processes, clients specified large amounts of functionality, then nervously faded into the background until the fateful day-of-delivery. With Agile, developers strove to engage with clients continuously and delivered much more frequently against their needs. …
In this video, coach of agile coaches, Lyssa Adkins, reveals the core beliefs of plan-driven management that must be reprogrammed if we are to use agile well. This reprogramming is personal, though. It happens inside you.
Going Agile can confer a number of benefits to an organization, but all too often those promised benefits aren’t fully delivered. Do you have the visibility you need to understand progress and make timely market-focused decisions? Do your teams ship on a frequency your customers can, and want, to accept? …
Cruft is inevitable. Whether you’re working around a bug in Internet Explorer, Heroku or Ruby 1.8, our libraries and applications quickly diverge from the platonic ideal of software. In the short-term, there’s no point in fretting. Rather than an indication of a development process gone awry, the technical debt merely …
In this video, Henrik Kniberg has compressed a one day product ownership course into a 15 minute animated presentation.
For years, one could assume that any development group trying to improve its approach to software was applying some form of Agile Software Development methodology like Scrum. In the last couple of years, Lean Software Development has seen a surge in popularity.
