Archives for March 2009

My Talk @ SD West 2009 on "Managing Software Debt"

I have uploaded the talk I did at SD West 2009 on Yahoo! Video and here it is: Managing Software Debt – Chris Sterling @ SD West 2009 @ Yahoo! Video

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It's BeyondAgile: people making software that works

The hopefully-not-anticlimatic second event of the still-pretty-new BeyondAgile is happening on Thursday: “Agile Challenges Clinic/Swap Meet” Thursday, 26 March 2009 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Locations on the Eastside and Seattle! Read on for agenda and location information, or visit our Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/beyondagile The Blurb At the first event, everyone (over forty people) created [...]

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Choking Productivity — Shared "Resources"

When introducing Scrum into an organization with many teams there are usually questions about particular roles and how they will work with teams. Questions that I have heard in the past are: I work on features that cut across all or most of the teams, how can I possibly work with all of them? I [...]

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