Less than 10% Information Density!
There is a strong need for ‘conversation’ as part of the requirement process—continuous, reflective, emergent, and ongoing communication. The conversations in this case [...]
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Category: Distributed Agile Development
Ukraine Inspires Thoughtful Reset…
I’ve held software development leadership positions for over 20 years throughout my career. In that time, I’ve established outsourced relationships many times. All of them [...]
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Debugging Your Distributed Agile Team
Johanna Rothman I think I’ve shared articles from Johanna Rothman before. This one came out recently and I think it worth mentioning here on the blog. Johanna has extreme [...]
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There can be only "1"
One of the things that has intrigued me about agile teams is the dilemma surrounding agile self-directed teams. There is intent to handle each of your agile teams as autonomous [...]
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Manifesto for Software Outsourcing
I happened upon a website by a young man in Germany. It seems he’s been doing agile for quite awhile and delivering value mostly from outsourced teams. His name is Alexey [...]
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Agile Done Well -- "Controlled Chaos&qu [...]
As you may or may not know, I’m an active agile coach. While I have a wonderful day job, I often get asked to enter new teams and jump-start them or assess their overall level [...]
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Outsourcing Attrition: Should You Care?
More than a few years ago I was operating as a QA manager with EMC. I had a fairly large team reporting to me; approximately 50 local testers and another 25 offshore. At the [...]
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Agile Release Planning: End-to-End Project [...]
I’m going to do something strange in this article. I’m going to ask you to read another article first. The topic is Agile Chartering, but I think that may not have been the [...]
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Enabling Distributed Agile Teams -- Point [...]
I ran across this blog post (and presentation) about distributed teams. It’s an interesting approach to facilitating a meeting and driving team-based thinking about how to [...]
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Agile Release Planning: End-to-End Project [...]
Continuing on with end-to-end planning techniques within agile contexts – Crystal Blitz Planning Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal method gets very little attention in the agile [...]
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