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The Vision Thing: How Do You Charter? #agile2011
We held a "Fringe" session at Agile 2011 to discuss how people charter or kick off projects. Elements of "Kickoff" [These are in no particular order.] Vision Release Criteria Success Criteria From and To State Business capability Solution vision Risks … Continue reading
Tagged agile, conference, team
3A – Arrange, Act, Assert
Some unit tests are focused, other are like a run-on sentence. How can we create tests that are focused and communicate well? What's a good structure for a unit test? 3A: Arrange, Act, Assert We want to test the behavior … Continue reading
Tagged agile, patterns, programmer, tdd, XPlorations
Review – Agile Product Management with Scrum (Pichler)
Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love, by Roman Pichler. Addison-Wesley, 2010. This is a fairly easy read (about 120 pages) explaining the role of the Product Owner in Scrum. I'd describe the target as "someone preparing … Continue reading
Review – Agile Estimating and Planning
Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn. Pearson Education, 2006.My back-cover review was “Mike Cohn explains his approach to Agile planning, and shows how ‘critical chain’ thinking can be used to effectively buffer both schedule and features. As with User Stories … Continue reading
Review – Requirements by Collaboration
Requirements by Collaboration, Ellen Gottesdiener. ISBN 0-201-78606-0. Addison-Wesley, 2002.Workshops are an effective place to capture requirements – getting the right people in the room, working together well, they can reach important agreements about what is needed. This book focuses mostly … Continue reading
Review – Balancing Agility and Discipline
Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed. Barry Boehm and Richard Turner. Addison-Wesley, 2004. Overall, this is a balanced treatment “agile” and “plan-driven” methods. (My biggest complaint is the title; if it had been “Balancing Agility and Planning” … Continue reading
Review – Managing Agile Projects
Managing Agile Projects, Sanjiv Augustine. Addison-Wesley, 2005.Sanjiv answers the question, “What do managers do on an agile team?” to say that they have many functions: team building, alignment, adaptation, and more. I particularly appreciated the chapter on using a “light … Continue reading
Review – Software by Numbers
Software by Numbers, Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang. Prentice-Hall, 2004. An MMF – “minimal marketable feature” – represents a unit of functionality that has value. This book shows how incremental delivery and incremental funding of MMFs can work together to … Continue reading
Review – Crystal Clear
Crystal Clear, Alistair Cockburn. Addison-Wesley, 2004.Crystal Clear is a software method that uses frequent delivery, reflective improvement, and osmotic communication as guard rails to guide a team in development. This book presents a number of perspectives on the methods; my … Continue reading
OOPSLA ’04 Trip Report
A trip report from OOPSLA ’04, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 24-28. Continue reading
Tagged agile, charts, coach, conference