September 29, 2011
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Articles, Beyond Agile
Chet Hendrickson and I have offered to help the Scrum Alliance build a broad and growing base of information relating to Scrum / Agile, and to the many skills and practices that can help teams be successful. Our offer has…
January 3, 2011
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Articles, Beyond Agile
Alan Shalloway blogged on “Big Change Up Front”, suggesting that it’s not always the best thing to do. This made me think …
December 24, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
“Why don’t you believe in testing?” said Lanette Creamer, the Testy Redhead. Ah, but I do. I care about what, when, and at which end of the horse.
December 12, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
An odd anonymous article on “LearnTFS” purports to debunk Agile by moving closer to waterfall. Interesting, but not quite right.
December 10, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
I’ve had the privilege of observing He Jinbao, a martial arts master. He doesn’t hurry. Maybe we shouldn’t either.
December 9, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
Are there places where lower quality has less negative impact? Possibly. Except maybe on your soul.
December 8, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
No one I know can operate at their peak performance all the time. How do we know how hard to work on quality? Same way you get to Carnegie Hall.
December 7, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
You can always find someone to argue for cutting quality corners to “go faster”. Is it possible to waste time cleaning code? Sure. Is it possible for code to be too clean? No.
Kate gives Dan Devlin, the company owner, an overview of Scrum.
At Agile2011, I brought along a “gift”, a nicely formatted and illustrated Kate Oneal story. I gave a copy to everyone who asked for one, and to a few people who didn’t but who I wanted…