The SoCraTes Crete conference is an event focused on Agile software development and software craftsmanship that takes place on the island of Crete in Greece. It is the successor of the Agile Crete conference. The aim of this conference is to be a playground where Agile coaches and software development team members could gather to discuss and share ideas about all things Agile and Scrum.
Agile Slovenia is a conference focused on Agile and Scrum topics that take place in Ljubljana. Agile Slovenia is an event where you can turn theory in action, attend to workshops, meet agile people, listen to agile pioneers, expand your knowledge. It features both local and international Agile experts.
If you have worked in a legacy codebase or ‘big ball of mud’, you know that it can make development unnecessarily slow, frustrating and costly. The solution, many developers would say, is to just rewrite the whole thing. But good luck getting every stakeholder to agree to such a costly and risky refactoring process.
A test management plugin for Jira will add to Jira the testing capabilities that project management tool does not provide natively. The core features of the test management Jira plugins should be to create test plans and test cases, organize them into test cycles, execute them, maintain traceability with Jira issues and provide test execution reports.
The notion of coaching is specific to Agile approaches in the software development world. There has always been consultants, but they were seen as a different role. Here are some resources about Agile coaching, starting with some quotes from the Agile Coaching book written by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley.
This presentation explains how an organization moved from 17 component backlogs to one shared, results-focused product backlog—and what that changed for delivery speed and alignment.
Many Scrum teams are based on a distributed organization where members are in different locations, countries or time zones. How could these Agile teams perform their retrospectives? Some companies have developed online tools that can be used to facilitate retrospectives for distributed Scrum teams that work remotely.
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