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Kate Oneal: Choosing the Stories

After a failed iteration, the team regroups with a few new stories.

Book Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft

Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What's not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.

Kate Oneal: Slices

The team has fallen far short in the most recent iteration. What should they do?

What is really essential?

Jens Meydam asked “What do you really care about in Scrum?” I decided to answer, instead, “What do you think is really essential in Scrum-style software development?

First, two things are fundamental:

Ship running, tested software every two weeks, or,

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Features or Date

Have all your desired features or make an exact date. What's so hard about that?

Beyond Agile — The Agile Barrier

Agile projects very often seem to stall out after gaining perhaps twenty-five percent of the possible benefit. Why is this? What can be done?

Beyond Agile — Inspect and Adapt? How?

Incremental and iterative development processes provide frequent opportunities for teams to "Inspect and Adapt". What should we inspect? How should we adapt? Is this part of the process?

The Agile Skills Project

Some good people[1], plus Chet and I, met in Ann Arbor the week of October 12 2009, to discuss Agile Team Member qualification. The outcome: The Agile Skills Project.

The Agile Skills Project is a non-commercial resource that will…

Interesting Links

I just thought I'd make a page with links that may be worth exploring. If you have some, let me know. I have not explored all of these, nor, probably, have you. That's why I'm listing them.

Evidence about Collocation

Here are a few links relating to collocation, thanks to Adrian Howard and others.