Archive for the ‘Lean’ Category

How Well Does Agile Scale?

Monday, December 15th, 2008

This email sent to a discussion forum discusses the experiences of a company with 27 development teams using Agile methods.

Agile Development Practices Keynote by Brian Marick (Text)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Brian again provides an essential work to the Agile community. Find out how to “work with ease” reading the text of his keynote from the Agile Development Practices conference here.

Scrum is Not the Silver Bullet

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

A video with multiple people in the agile community has been created to discuss what causes Scrum and agile to fail at this location.

Tasty Cupcakes: Experiential Learning Games

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

The “Tasty Cupcakes” site has a plethora of experiential learning games that may be of interest to teams, coaches, and trainers.

Agile 2008 Post Roundup

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Mark Levison rolls up a listing of post Agile 2008 resources on his blog “Notes from a Tool User” here.

Starting and Finishing by Johanna Rothman

Monday, October 6th, 2008

This blog entry discusses the problem with having too many projects started. The problems are related to project portfolio management and how do we decide what should be started.

The First Scrum: Was it Scrum or Lean?

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Jeff Sutherland describes to the agile community how Scrum came into being and how it’s roots stem from complex adaptive systems. This article has comprehensive information on Scrum early days including discussion group archives.

Future Directions for Agile

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

This presentation by David Anderson discusses what is Agile, how does the community embrace changes to its foundations, and his thoughts on what will allow us to express more maturity as a community. It is full of thought provoking ideas and potentially controversial methods that are rooted in existing theory and industry practices.

Toward a New Definition of Maturity

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Mary and Tom Poppendieck describe a different way to think about mature organizations and processes in this article.

SOA and TDD at Bosch

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Is your organization or team working on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation? Are you wondering if this can be implemented using an Agile approach? Check out how an extremely large organization, Bosch, has used an Agile approach along with Test-Driven Design (TDD) to implement SOA using a middle-out architecture strategy.