Agile can inflict a lot of irreversible damage to companies and teams and, in most cases, it cannot be repaired. I sometimes encounter companies that have implemented a form of Agile. Sometimes they use Scrum or Kanban, and on other occasions they...

It's not the methodology or the tool that fails to deliver quality software it's the people involved. I strongly believe this and am here to share a case study of when Scrum was followed properly versus when it was not followed properly. B...

We know a fixed-price contract is maybe not the best alternative when applying Scrum to a software development project. However, some organizations will not change the way they approach contracts for software development projects. What if this org...

In 10 years since the signing of the Agile Manifesto we’ve seen some notable successes, half-way efforts, fragile, scrum-but and just plain #FAIL. We tried to adopt agile methods to solve all types of problems, and many of those problems persist. What are the most common failure modes? How can organizations avoid falling into those failing patterns? Video Producer: http://www.agilevancouver.ca/

Running Agile software development projects using Scrum is not always an easy task. Sometimes you need to take a step back and look at the Agile best practices with a dose of humour. This is the purpose of the “Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary” which try to implement the following user story: “As a reader with a sense of humor, I want to find down-to-earth definitions, So that I can smile, frown, and reflect.” You might find in it some gems to create a lighter atmosphere for your next Scrum meeting. Some ...

Codice Software, which makes agile development tools for small and large teams of gaming, mobile and enterprise software developers, today launched GitSync for Plastic SCM. The new GitSync for Plastic SCM software release integrates with Git repositories and provides the world's first native ...

ZeroTurnaround, the company that’s improving the way the world develops, tests and runs software, announced today the availability of LiveRebel 2.6, its software release automation tool that helps operations and QA teams get software to users quickly, easily and safely.

Whether you follow a Agile framework like Scrum with its planning poker or a traditional project management approach, the estimation activity is always difficult to perform productively and consistently on the long term. In this article, Kirill Klimov shares a simple and lightweight estimation technique that should make the sizing process easier for a Scrum team. Story point is a relative sizing metric, which means that you always compare stories between them. This often works well at the very beginning the project, but when you estimate new stories, it becomes much ...

Rally Software, a provider of solutions for managing Agile software development, announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be offe ...

IT as a Business (ITAAB) has been a common marketing slogan and business model promoted by thought leaders from firms such as Gartner, Forrester, and Forbes in the past ten years.1 At its core is a philosophy of managing IT as a self-sustaining ...

Your team has been working together for several sprints. Things are going fairly well. You're delivering stories each sprint and the product owner is content. But there's always technical debt accumulating, or a problem lurking in software. How do...

Discover how a team of sysadmins dragged the best of Kanban, added a chunk of Scrum and came up with a clear and sustainable process for support teams.Video Producer: ACE! Conference

Introduction I recently completed a long assignment implementing Scrum and decided that, in the spirit of continuous development and learning, it would be useful to run a personal retrospective while between jobs. This paper articulates some of ...