Feedback is frequently cited as the cornerstone of a Agile methods yet many teams are only playing lip service to it. This talk looks at the function, importance, meaning and limitations of systemic feedback in 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 …
This short video provides the definition of the Product Owner role in Scrum according to the 2013 Scrum Guide.
Sure, the TDD cycle is red-green-refactor but what exactly are we refactoring? We just wrote the code, it’s green, and it seems reasonable to us. Let’s move onto the next test. We’re have a deadline, remember? Whether we’re working with code we just wrote or opening up a project for …
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!
