The goal of the book “Lean-Agile Software Development – Achieving Enterprise Agility” by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver and James R. Trott, is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development.
SoCraTes Day Switzerland is the Swiss stage of the International Software Craftsmanship Gathering, a series of events for open-minded software developers who want to improve their craft and the software industry as a whole. This conferences aims at providing an ideal setting for speaking to and coding with other talented and engaged Agile software developers
CodeFreeze is an unconference taking place in Finland that defines itself as a “time and place for software craftspeople to meet”. It is part of the international group of SoCraTes conferences that are focused on software craftsmanship.
Scrum Day Europe is a conference dedicated to Scrum that takes place in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This conference dedicated to Agile project management and Scrum takes place in Amsterdam and will feature local and international expert speakers. This is a main event for all European Scrum practitioners.
Product metrics and key performance indicator(KPIs) have been getting increasingly more important and useful for Agile organizations that develop digital products. When done right, they can become an engine for product growth and inform great strategic and tactical decisions. When done wrong, they can lead to a huge amount of sunk resources and wasted time.
If the development of open source Scrum tools was in vogue some years ago, a lot of these projects have now been abandoned. Some are still active, but this is because their development is sponsored by a commercial hosted option. There is however an alternative to manage your Agile software development projects if you have a low budget… and a small team. Some providers of commercial Scrum tools provide a free version of their software, often with some limitations.
This article discusses the clarity of requirements for Agile software development and explains how you can use a four-step process for gathering them with the four levels of agile requirements.
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