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Review – Fit for Developing Software

Fit for Developing Software, by Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham. [My bias disclosure – I know both Rick & Ward, I was a reviewer, and I’ve written for their publisher myself. This review is...

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Agile ’05 Conference Report

Part 1 The Agile '05 conference was July 24-29, 2005, in Denver, Colorado, USA. There were about ten or twelve tracks at all times, so this report is necessarily only a limited bit. Usually I teach,...

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Twenty Ways to Split Stories

The ability to split stories is an important skill for customers and developers on XP teams. This note suggests a number of dimensions along which you might divide your stories. (Added July, 2009:...

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Review – Agile Estimating and Planning

Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn. Pearson Education, 2006.My back-cover review was “Mike Cohn explains his approach to Agile planning, and shows how ‘critical chain’ thinking can be used to...

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Agile Project Management, XP Style

  How do you plan the overall shape of a project in XP? This article summarizes planning with little reference to the programming aspects of XP. Vocabulary People: Team: the customers, programmers, and...

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Slicing Functionality: Alternate Paths

By Bill Wake, Joseph Leddy, and Kent Beck   When you need to break up a big feature, you often have many choices about how to do so.   Slicing One of the basic challenges of software project management...

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The Vision Thing: How Do You Charter? #agile2011

We held a "Fringe" session at Agile 2011 to discuss how people charter or kick off projects.  Elements of "Kickoff" [These are in no particular order.] Vision Release Criteria Success Criteria From and...

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Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams (Review)

Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams, by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies. Pragmatic Programmer, 2016. ISBN 978-1680501636. When I visit teams, I often ask them to describe what the project...

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Chartering and more: What happens before user stories?

Some teams try to start projects directly with user stories, but many important things need to happen earlier to make those effective. Chartering (aka Liftoff) provides a better way to structure the...

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Procedural and Declarative Tests

Procedural tests focus on a series of steps; declarative tests work from the input and states. Procedural tests are natural to write, but consider whether a declarative test expresses your intent more...

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