This talk examines briefly why we miss the target with so much of our software development effort, and go on to provide a number of tools which help teams and organizations focus their efforts and select which products to build, which projects to fund, and how to quickly know when …
It’s been over ten years since we coined the term agile. Are you finally comfortable with being agile? If you are comfortable, then that’s too bad, because it means you’re doing it wrong. Join Andy Hunt, one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto for an important look back …
“Why should we write our tests first? Isn’t that going to slow my development?” “What? Assigning a single task to 2 developers? How is that efficient? What a waste of resources!” “Look, in the perfect world your advises are great, but I have a project to finish here.” In this …
There is a lot of buzz around continuous delivery. When does Scrum, with iterative releases, compare to Continuous Delivery and when should each be used?
After over ten years since the Agile summit, software projects are still failing and developers are still behaving and being treated as factory workers. The software development industry is still very amateur when compared to other professions. How can we change this?
How often do you release your product to your end users? How often do your end users see and use your product? Do you release in sync with your Sprint length, after the Sprint Review? Is the Sprint Review meeting the only valid release point? When do you plan your …
