- Documentation in Scrum Projects
- Feb 11, 2016
- Good agile teams are disciplined about their documentation but are also deliberate about how much they do and when. In this chapter from The Scrum Field Guide: Agile Advice for Your First Year and Beyond, 2nd Edition, we find a duo struggling to explain that while they won’t be fully documenting everything up front, they will actually be more fully documenting the entire project from beginning to end.
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- What Is Scrumban and Why Should I Care?
- Sep 9, 2015
- Scrumban is a management framework that emerges when teams employ Scrum as their chosen way of working and use the Kanban Method as a lens through which to view, understand and continuously improve how they work. Ajay Reddy, author of The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban, explains what Scrumban is and how the framework can improve your projects.
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- Video: The Perfectly-Formed Requirement
- Aug 31, 2015
- James Robertson, co-author with Suzanne Robertson of "Requirements: The Masterclass LiveLessons--Traditional, Agile, Outsourcing (Video Training)," discusses the perfectly-formed requirement, which should be unambiguous and testable. James discusses the Snow Card, focusing on the requirement, rationale, fit criterion, and supporting materials.
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- Video: Mastering the Requirements Process: The Brown Cow Model
- Aug 24, 2015
- Suzanne Robertson, co-author with James Robertson of Requirements: The Masterclass LiveLessons--Traditional, Agile, Outsourcing (Video Training), discusses the Brown Cow model in the requirements process, which helps you take into account different points of view of the same problem so you can discover and communicate requirements.
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- Upgrade Your IT Using Agile IT Organization Design
- Aug 10, 2015
- Sriram Narayan, author of Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery, describes a holistic approach to improving organizational agility through deliberate organization design based on three overarching principles. This operating model scales Agile using a modern scale-out mindset rather than a conventional scale-up mindset.
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- Mobilize: Rolling Out Scrumban
- Aug 5, 2015
- Rolling out Scrumban doesn’t have to require a lot of effort. In this chapter from The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban, Ajay Reddy covers how framework choices influence outcomes, offers a step-by-step guide to getting started, and explains how to use Scrumban to stabilize a team before you improve.
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- Manifestations: Scrumban Demystified
- Jul 29, 2015
- In this introductory chapter from The Scrumban [R]Evolution: Getting the Most Out of Agile, Scrum, and Lean Kanban, Ajay Reddy describes the true essence of Scrumban.
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- Tips for Team Design in Agile IT Organizations
- Jul 2, 2015
- This chapter from Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery describes how various multiteam configurations, including the matrix organization, reduce organizational agility and how having fewer outcome-oriented, cross-functional teams can help.
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- Structural Patterns for the Common Information Model
- May 18, 2015
- This chapter from Common Information Models for an Open, Analytical, and Agile World covers five software design patterns that illustrate different approaches to structuring your common information model.
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- Video: Dean Leffingwell on the Value of Using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- May 6, 2015
- Dean Leffingwell, founder and CEO of Scaled Agile, Inc., discusses his new video, "Leading Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) LiveLessons," results that enterprises who adopt SAFe are seeing, the must-have SAFe practices, and the keys to successful enterprise adoption of SAFe.
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- Video: Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework): Organize an Agile Release Train
- Apr 28, 2015
- In this excerpt from Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) LiveLessons (Video Training), Dean Leffingwell discusses implementing the agile release train, which is the primary value delivery vehicle inside the scaled agile framework.
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- Video: Introduction to Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) LiveLessons
- Apr 23, 2015
- In this excerpt from Leading SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) LiveLessons, Dean Leffingwell introduces the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its underlying principles of lean thinking, agile development, and product development flow.
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- The Inefficiency of Multitasking: Why Your Smartphone Is a 'Weapon of Mass Distraction'
- Mar 20, 2015
- Scott Will, co-author of Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from "Waterfalling Backward", will convince you that multitasking simply wastes time and energy. Learn how to give up multitasking - and get more done.
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- Video: Scrum Fundamentals and Advanced Training: Mapping User Stories to Test Cases
- Jan 27, 2015
- Tommy Norman, author of Scrum Fundamentals and Advanced LiveLessons (Video Training), talks about the process between the user story and test, and starting with the test in mind.
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- How Agile Testing Has Evolved
- Dec 16, 2014
- Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, authors of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team, describe how agile has grown rapidly to improve the work (and lives) of developers worldwide. From its inception as a development concept that sometimes induced fear and promoted confusion, agile has risen and deepened to become a business approach in which everyone can succeed together: customers, programmers, testers, and anyone else involved in delivering business value.
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- Video: Tommy Norman on Advanced Scrum
- Nov 6, 2014
- How do you do Quality Assurance and still be Agile? Tommy Norman, author of Scrum Fundamentals and Advanced LiveLessons Video Training, answers questions about his video and discusses requirements management in Scrum, finding the right balance of documentation, and the importance of user stories.
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- Using Models to Help Plan Tests in Agile Projects
- Oct 16, 2014
- This chapter from More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team looks at some foundations of agile test planning and how they are evolving.
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- Organizational Culture Considerations with Agile
- Jul 24, 2014
- The organizational culture impacts to an Agile transformation are profound. Successful implementations need support from the team members, management, and executives to embrace new ways of completing work and collaborating. Every role in the organization will be affected in some way, and by understanding what is different and what drives success in each role, we are better positioned for the increase in productivity, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction that can be delivered by becoming Agile.
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- Preface to Introduction to Agile Methods
- Jul 16, 2014
- Sondra Ashmore and Kristin Runyan introduce their book, Introduction to Agile Methods, the place to start for students and professionals who want to understand Agile and become conversant with Agile values, principles, framework, and processes.
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- Help Me Hire Your Students! Why Companies Need Universities to Teach Agile Development
- Jul 14, 2014
- Sondra Ashmore, co-author with Kristin Runyan of Introduction to Agile Methods, discusses how she came to discover the need for a university course curriculum on Agile software development. As Agile becomes more widely adopted in business, new employees will be expected to know Agile basics. Educational institutions have to start training those future hires in the Agile skills they'll need in the work force after graduation.
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