The concept of team is at the heart of Agile software development and frameworks like Scrum. Forming high performance Agile teams is however not obvious. In this article, Debbie Madden suggests five steps that could bring your software development teams beyond the basic principles of Agile.
The Spike Day San Diego (formerly Scrum Day San Diego) is a one-day conference that discusses Scrum, Lean and all things Agile in San Diego County. This single-track conference will be your opportunity to hear how other people from San Diego County navigated Agile software development steps as they share their stories. Learn from people who have been there and done that.
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” how often have you heard this phrase from the Agile Manifesto? I strongly believe in it however we see that a good balance between the two parts is the key to succeed. As the Agile Manifesto says “That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more”.
Some software development teams try to adopt Scrum, but they don’t achieve the full benefits of this approach. This might be due to the fact that the teams customize Scrum in a way that is inappropriate. In this article, Pablo Pecora suggests five aspects of Scrum, like the planning poker, that you cannot skip if you want to get the benefits of Agile.
CollabNet and VersionOne have announced the two companies have merged. The combined company, which will maintain the CollabNet name, will be headquartered in Atlanta. CollabNet CEO Flint Brenton will serve as CEO of the combined company, and VersionOne CEO Robert Holler will serve as chief strategy officer. Terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.
This talk explains the need for continuous improvement when adopting agile ways of working. It explores how continuous improvement is fundamental in agile, and what you can do to increase the agility of your teams and the organization as a whole.
Should agile practitioners avoid large corporate clients? Are they just too hard to take on a progressive agile journey? Helping companies that think they are already agile to actually adopt agile is an interesting challenge, for a start, nobody likes to be told that they are doing it wrong. In this video, David Espley shares his experience of helping larger corporate clients to act more like Lean startups, discusses how you wean people off their agile washed legacy processes and let go of some of the big company baggage.
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