Technical Spikes in Agile and Scrum
Technical spikes are a great way for teams to scope out some work that they don’t fully understand before they begin work on it. Spikes are used by teams to suss out or do [...]
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Category: Agile Practices
The Collective Memory of the Team
If you’ve any experience in agile approaches for software development, one of the common arguments surrounds documentation. Mostly it centers on software requirements, but it [...]
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Read my lips: Requirements Provide NO Val [...]
I was telling a colleague the other day a coaching story that I found somewhat humorous. I was visiting a potential client not that long ago and my timing was just right. That [...]
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Micrognosis: A Pre-agile, Agile Story
I want to share a story from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. It’s been on my mind quite a bit of late, as I tell it in some of my agile classes. However, I’m unsure whether the [...]
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Stop Pushing Back on Scope Creep—Embrace [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company I was a pup of a programmer back in 1980. I was working at Sperry Univac (yes, Univac). I [...]
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Predicting the Death of Requirement Micro-Manag [...]
I was teaching a class a few weeks ago on Agile Methods. One of the crucial aspects of an introductory course, at least from my perspective, is an introduction to agile requirem [...]
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