Agile Archives - ElegantCode

6 Oct

2019

Goal Setting in an Agile World

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Agile, Management:

Setting goals in an Agile organization is not only reasonable. It’s necessary.

6 Feb

2018

The Long Distance Product Owner

By: David Starr Category:AgileTag: Agile, collaboration, Scrum:

I’m often asked questions I decide to answer on my blog. After all, if one person has the question, so do others. Here is the question we’re answering today. How can we make it work when the Product Owner and Development Team are 12 time zones apart? Answers People Don’t Like Well, there are a few […]

11 Sep

2017

One Thing DevOps Does to Scrum Teams

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Agile, devops, Scrum:3 Comments

Scrum teams often struggle with how to manage work in their team after moving to a DevOps model. This post poses some scenarios and answers to that challenge.

23 Apr

2017

Team Safari – Beating the Central Services Team Problem

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Agile, engineering teams, team safari:

Does your team get stuck by not getting what they need from a team it depends on? Consider a Team Safari.

30 Jan

2012

Agile’s Coming of Age

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Agile, Scrum:13 Comments

Now that the term “Agile” is sufficiently compromised as to be near meaningless, Agile Software Development is old enough to stand on its own, make its own business case, and demonstrate its value. But it still isn’t a mature adult. Agile Software Development is a hormonally unbalanced pre-teen with ugly spots, occasional outbursts of irrational […]

21 Jan

2011

Book Review – Extreme Programming Explained

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Agile, Books:4 Comments

Last week I finished reading the first edition of Extreme Programming Explained, written by Kent Beck. I explicitly wanted to read the first edition, that I purchased via AbeBooks, which is also the first book that appeared in the series of books on XP. I’ve read a couple of book reviews of the second edition […]

10 Jan

2011

The Social Network

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: Agile:7 Comments

Over the weekend I watched this movie called The Social Network. As a geek, I felt that I was somehow mentally obligated to see this movie :-). While I was watching this movie, I noticed a subtle detail that was shown a couple of times throughout the film. This subtle detail showed how this small […]

31 Jul

2010

Breaking Even Small Things Up

By: John Sonmez Category:UncategorizedTag: Agile:3 Comments

I?ve talked about why smaller is better and especially why this pertains to product backlogs, or rather fatlogs, but I wanted to zoom in for a second to one of the most valuable applications of the rule: writing the code. Typical workflow What do you do when you get a task or a backlog item […]