Distributed Teams Revisited - Tips and Tri [...]
I’ve been working with distributed teams for a long time – about twenty years now. Some of those teams have been based in Europe, some in India, and some across the [...]
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Category: Distributed Agile Development
Using Risk to Prioritize Your Product Back [...]
When teaching Product Owner workshops, I talk about the need to get a prioritized product backlog. For some students, this is easy but many people struggle. They’re used [...]
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An Alternative Way to Assign User Story Poi [...]
One of the hardest concepts for some teams to understand, especially when they first start using user stories, is that of story points. “What is a point?” they [...]
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The 3 C's Refresher - Cards, Conversations, and [...]
When I train agile teams – especially Scrum teams – I always bring up my experience as a developer starting with eXtreme Programming (at least my company’s [...]
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How do you want your Software, Good or Fa [...]
Picture this… You are in a software diner one evening after a long day at work. A tired and disheveled waitress walks up to you to take your order—gum smacking as she goes [...]
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Distributed Agile Teams: The ART of the ST [...]
Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company I’ve been sharing about agile methods for over ten years at conferences and workshops. [...]
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Latest client news
Velocity Partners has recently begun work with Appature, Bid2Win and 2book. We welcome Getty Images back to Latin America for a second two-week onsite visit. Velocity Partners [...]
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Latin America for outsourcing goes from novel [...]
At the recent Nearshore Nexus Conference, speakers focused on how Latin America and the Caribbean are “no longer in the shadow of India or China” when it comes to being [...]
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How Agile is your outsourcer?
According to Gartner’s IT Outsourcing Forecast, worldwide outsourcing expenditures grew 8 percent from 2008 to 2011. VersionOne conducted a separate survey of more than 6 [...]
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Agile goes mainstream
Agile is going to the masses. A recent article in Venture Beat highlights areas beyond software development that are embracing Agile best practices. At Velocity Partners we [...]
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