January 30, 2009
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Martin Fowler has recently posted a note on Flaccid Scrum. Related posts such as Jim Shore’s The Decline and Fall of Agile have made similar points. Lots of discussion has ensued. The fundamental
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January 28, 2009
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Elizabeth Hendrickson hosted a web chat yesterday, attended by her imaginary brother Chet, Corey Haines, J.B.Rainsberger, and yours truly. After about a year of getting the microphones and webcams to work, we settled down to talk about pair programming. I
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January 27, 2009
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James Brett runs scrummaster.com.au. He is starting a new series called “5 Questions”, where he asks leading lights in the industry five questions about Scrum and their relationship with it. Apparently he was unable to get any leading …
January 26, 2009
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I’ll be attending the Scrum Gathering in Orlando this March, as will Chet. We’ll be speaking, and generally milling around with the rest of the folks. …
January 15, 2009
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Agile software development, with one exception mentioned below, is iterative. An iteration consists of a short time-box, from one month down to one week. The length of the iteration, averaged …
There’s a lot of interesting talk and thinking, going on under the heading of #NoEstimates. I think it’s great, and I’m all for it. To do #NoEstimates, people will need some help …
Robert Pirsig’s protagonist “Phaedrus” said “Quality is what you like”. We talk a lot about “value”.
My aim here is to suggest to you that value is what you like.
Are “manual” versus “automated” useful terms? As a matter of fact, yes, they are …
It’s time to tell you a bit about the point of this little game we’re working in.