Archive for the ‘Scaling’ Category

Tester-Developer Ratios on Agile Teams

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Lisa Crispin provides a couple of good stories about her experience on teams and the ratio of testers to developers in this blog entry.

Practicing Agility in Application Architecture

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices group had put together a suggested process for implementing architecture while keeping an Agile method of software development in this article.

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.

Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Jeff Sutherland and Xebia CTO Guido Schoonheim discuss their success with teams distributed across two locations, Holland and India, with data that shows similar velocity as localized teams in this video.

The WordCount Simulation

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

In her Agile Testing class, Elisabeth Hendrickson conducts an exercise called the WordCount Simulation that is described in detail with this blog post.

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.

Scrum Case Studies

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Mark Levison has compiled a listing of great Scrum case studies for those interested in how others do it in this blog entry.

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 Journal - Infrastructure Refactoring

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Mario
Moreira describes how infrastructure can be refactored in a similar nature as code in this article.

Agile Journal - Seven Agile Coach Failure Modes

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Lyssa Adkins defines 7 failure modes for Agile Coaches and provides some advice on how to manage against them in this blog entry.