Putting People First in the Transformation The agile manifesto states that it values “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools”. It puts people and the ways they work together at the center of things. Processes and tools support these collaborations. For organizations undergoing an agile transformation, this ‘people first’ idea is proving useful in introducing and establishing agile practices. Read the full article...
Working with larger backlogs What happens when your backlog grows to a point that it becomes hard to manage as a single flat list? When a flat backlog grows beyond a hundred or so items it can start to become unwieldy. For a typical small agile project, this may never happen. For larger projects where multiple Scrum-style teams are working off a common backlog, that backlog is quite likely to grow (or even start) this big. Read the full article...
Agile and Object Modeling? Surely Not! Talking about object modeling in an Agile context is often contentious. For many Agilists it conjures up memories of elitist analyst/designers wasting months creating incomprehensible diagrams in purpose-built modeling tools and then throwing the so-called models and next-to-useless generated skeleton source code over the wall to developers who generally ignored it – the antithesis of Agile in many peoples’ eyes. Read the full article...
Agile Scope: A picture and a few words While there are plenty of suggestions and some popular approaches to extending Scrum and eXtreme Programming to cover multiple dependent teams, they are just that; extensions to the original core set of rules or practices. Read the full article...
Culture Change with Pigs, not Chickens ... To summarize, if you can produce a change in the behavior of the lead pigs, the other pigs will, by definition, follow. However, pigs will not follow chickens for long because chickens are simply not pigs. Read the full article...