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- The Difference between Scrum and kanban approaches
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- Hating on Agile goes Mainstream
- The Incredible Logic of Agile
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- The Difference between “Agile” and “Lean”
- The con job that is Shu-Ha-Ri
- Where the Agile/Scrum Community got it wrong, and why the backlash continues to grow
- Death by Agile Fever
- Moved content to new site
- Know — And Choose — What you are optimizing for
- Should “Agile” methodolgies just be called “Lightweight” methodologies?
- Voke releases Research Report on Agile Realities
- Kanban for Software Engineering?
- Range Estimation versus Point Estimation
- The Perennial Waterfall Strawman/Myth
- Orwell on Agile
- Infotisements, Propaganda, and Agile
- Agile promotes less accountability, not more
- Refactoring the Role of the Product Owner
- Management is Not Bad — MicroManagement is Bad
- Teamwork in a Command and Control Enviornment?
- The Quest for the One True Way
- Do Solid Engineering and Business Practices need New Age/Eastern Religion/Anti-Capitalist leanings to succeed?
- Responding to Change over Following a Plan = Technical Debt
- Agile is a Placebo and that’s Fine, Claims noted Agile Author
- Scrum Deprogramming Seminars coming to a City near you
- Evidence that Scrum is in decline?
- Excellent NYT Article on Open Office, Groupthink, Concentration and Productivity
- Death by a thousand cuts, Agile/Scrum style — an example
- Post Agilism: Moving beyond the outdated and misdirected aspects of “Agile”
- By Popular Request: What my Approach Is
- Enthusiasm and Astroturfing in the Agile Landscape
- The New New Agile Manifesto
- The State of Agile 2012
- My Fix for the “CreateRiaClientFilesTask task failed unexpectedly. — Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain” error
- Howto: Create and Promote a new (but popular) Agile Methodolology
- Lack of Scrum Success stories a Growing Concern?
- Planet of the eXtreme Programmers, 10th Anniv. Edition
- Is Scrum just a series of Mini Waterfalls?
- Are you an independent thinker or just an Agile Parrot?
- Scrum Success Stories
- Is the Agile Community still “uncovering better ways of developing software…” or just debating whether to implement Scrum or Kanban?
- Understanding the psychology of dogma and “purists” in Scrum and other movements
- Cultural aspects of bringing Lean, Kanban, TPS, Scrum and other Japanese based management systems to the west
- Refactoring the Scrum Lexicon
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My most Relevant posts on Agile organized for your Tight Timeline
Note: This is a sticky post and not necessarily the most recent. Scroll down for the most recent postings.. However if you are new to this blog you should definitely read this post! Since blogs in general and this one … Continue reading
The flawed rhetoric about “Scrum” and “Organizational Dysfunction”
One of the most bizarre, yet highly touted, “features” of Scrum is that it “exposes Organizational Dysfunction”. Not mere team based, project based, or even departmental dysfunction, but Organizational Dysfunction … enterprise wide. Now this is crazy on so many … Continue reading
A Flattened Cost of Change Curve: An economic analysis
Much has been written about how a lowered cost of change curve is a benefit. And it certainly is a benefit. However, change is still costly, in terms of both time and money, even with this lowered cost of change. … Continue reading
Let’s stop calling Scrum, Agile, XP, etc, “Best” Practices
Let’s stop calling Scrum, Agile, XP, etc, “Best” Practices Let’s instead call them what they are: Practices
Posted in .net, agile, c#, cio, cto, scrum, software evelopment, Uncategorized
Tagged .net, agile, c#, cio, cto, design patterns, extreme programming, java, scrum, xp
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Moving Beyond Technical Elitism
Improving the quality of discourse amongst IT professionals is crucial to regaining the Respect that IT deserves. The current debate techniques often used by varying camps are harmful to IT’s Image and Credibility and harmful to broadening the knowledge and … Continue reading
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Tagged .net, agile, apple, bill gates, css, dynamic languages, entrepreneurship, hiring, java, jobs, linux, macintosh, mysql, php, rails, ruby, scrum, smalltalk, static typing, steve jobs, VC, windows
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Fairly Evaluting Consultant Versus Full Time Rates, Part I
Any Consultant will Frequently be engaged in rate discussions with potential clients. Many times these are hiring managers, not HR folks. Sometimes, these hiring managers expect consultants to work for the same hourly rate a full timer would perform the … Continue reading
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Tagged .net, agile, coaching, consultants, consulting, contracting, crystal, css, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, finance, flash, hiring, hr, html, interviewing, java, jobs, php, resume, resumes, ruby, scrum, xp
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Agile & Waterfall are two sides of the exact same Coin
Agile & Waterfall are two sides of the exact same Coin, and are equally good or bad. Some Agile enthusiasts enjoy lambasting waterfall while espousing “Agile”, however the two techniques have many similarities — they both represent extreme ends of … Continue reading
Posted in agile, software architecture
Tagged .net, agile, c#, extreme programming, java, xp
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What to do when Scrum/XP isn’t working in your shop?
By this time, probably at least a few shops have given a try to Agile and Scrum. For some, things have probably been going fine. For others, perhaps not so fine. What to do when Agile/Scrum isn’t working for your … Continue reading
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Tagged .net, agile, asp.net, c#, extreme programming, java, ruby, scrum, winforms, xp
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