Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The rules of Scrum are simple, but too often people forget that to actually do Scrum requires spirit, passion, engagement and involving the whole team. Its not Scrum if Scrum Implementation Problems and Alternatives Problem Why it's a problem An alternative.the team is told what their velocity is.

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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 17, 2023

Experiences like these make many developers think about using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). BDD emphasizes collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders to define and deliver software that meets business requirements. Increasing feedback and the delivery of value by working in rapid, small iterations.

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Apiumhub

JULY 30, 2018

We are looking for a Backend developer to join our software development team in Barcelona! At Apiumhub , we are experts in software architecture and software development. Requirements for backend developer . 2+ years of backend development experience. Agile Methodologies: Scrum ( Jira ). Who are we?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 23, 2019

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 24, 2019

Today, our ScrumMaster and their Team grapple with these issues, to help you understand how they affect a Scrum Team and what you can do to prevent them from dragging you down. He spends some time watching the Development Team work and notices that Team members are often interrupted several times a day. 3] [link]. [4] 4] [link].

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Silk and Spinach

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In many of them I see a familiar pattern: The managers and business analysts are sent on courses and sent to conferences and given books to read; most of them change their job title to things like Scrum Master or Product Owner; they create their plans using “stories” written on post-it notes, and they organise their projects into Sprints.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

They agree to raise the issue in the next Daily Scrum. In addition they discovered that their existing Unit Tests only provide 10% Code Coverage. Day 2 During Daily Scrum Ian describes what theyve learned from installing Sonar and trying to configure PMD. Lets give them some reading/study options.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. And the very first question I shot their way was: “What are some of your biggest software development nightmares?” Deadlines are any software development team’s biggest nightmare. These days, packages are ever-changing.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 26, 2012

During these meetings, team members estimate New Stories, split Large Stories, and develop Acceptance Criteria. There was a pause and Scrum Master Steve asked, What do you know about our estimation process? Experts do the Estimation (at best) or sometimes it's the Project Managers (not all of whom have development experience).

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. And the very first question I shot their way was: “What are some of your biggest software development nightmares?” Deadlines are any software development team’s biggest nightmare. These days, packages are ever-changing.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

While producing this blog post, I collaborated with our in-house software development team. And the very first question I shot their way was: “What are some of your biggest software development nightmares?” Deadlines are any software development team’s biggest nightmare.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JULY 18, 2012

When you still have development to test handoffs (i.e. before you start doing ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development), smaller stories enable more frequent handoffs and allow testers to work on smaller chunks of code. A number of reasons: Small stories provide focus and a short horizon for the team.

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Net Objectives

JULY 9, 2018

Most Scrum courses teach story writing w/ "As a I want so that I get ". When people learn the core of acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) using behavior driven development's (BDD) Given-When-Then construct, they leave the workshop having written small stories from their own backlog.

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James Shore

JUNE 19, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated! Scaling Agility.

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SCRUMstudy

MARCH 29, 2018

The Agile methodology is a popular project management approach for software development and implementation. Many software development companies are adopting one or more of the methods included under the Agile canopy, because of its numerous advantages. Agile can be tailor-made to suit business specifications and project requirements.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. The first production release was ready after 9 weeks of development. Second Edition cover.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 11, 2020

The results will be more engaged team members, scrum masters, and a way of working that converts skeptics and naysayers into Agile evangelists. Engaged scrum masters are essential for long-term change (26:49). Scrum: Novice to Ninja: [link]. So, let’s take one of them, I think you said unit testing, is that right?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 6, 2018

As we discussed in “ Specialists Are Overrated ,” developing cross-skills and “T-Shaped” people in a team has many benefits – for the team/organization itself, the customer, and the individual. There are two major ways to discover opportunities for cross-skilling: Kanban/Scrum Team Board. Kanban/Scrum Team Board.

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Net Objectives

JULY 9, 2018

First, let's be clear what we mean by Acceptance Test-Driven Development. It does not mean automating testing. It is possible to integrate ATDD training into a team's initial Scrum and/or SAFe training. If the team is in a company doing SAFe their Scrum Masters and RTEs can more easily work with them.

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Net Objectives

JULY 9, 2018

First, let's be clear what we mean by Acceptance Test-Driven Development. It does not mean automating testing. It is possible to integrate ATDD training into a team's initial Scrum and/or SAFe training. If the team is in a company doing SAFe their Scrum Masters and RTEs can more easily work with them.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 9, 2019

jpg'; One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of Done is unique to Scrum.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. The first field test units were delivered after approximately six months into development.

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Codegiant

APRIL 14, 2020

The Agile methodology definition was introduced by 17 software developers gathered in Utah back in 2001. In an Agile development methodology, daily cooperation is an essential factor. There must be communication between both the developers and business people. Scrum sprints last from two weeks to a month.

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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There are concepts like TDD (test-driven development) that establish that every developer should think about how they are going to test something, even before they start writing code. Keep in sync: The PO sync up meeting and the scrum of scrums are not only for the execution of the PI. It will work.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Modern software development takes a lot of skills.

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LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

Once you get past the sales pitches and confirmation biases, it doesn’t take much research to discover that agile and Scrum don’t have such a great track record. Question 1: Should you use Scrum or Continuous Delivery? Question 2: Do you hire Developers or Engineers? Agile without a strong technology base is usually a mistake.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 5, 2018

jpg'; As we discussed in Specialists Are Overrated , developing cross-skills and T-Shaped" people in a team has many benefits for the team/organization itself, the customer, and the individual. For example, inside of Java Development, we might write down specific libraries or tools that team members use. Pair programing [sic] rocks.

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Xoriant

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Largely we found “Scrum and Acceptance Test-Driven” as the better model for solution projects whereas for Support “Kanban and “Acceptance Test-Driven” is preferred. Defining the entry and exit criteria: We had defined the entry criteria, which forced developers to deliver Unit Test, build for testing.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. This can be achieved using methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, DevOps etc, leading to responsive business prioritization and short delivery iterations.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? We use Extreme Programming as our model of how to develop software. They tend to be passionate, senior developers. Not possible. And were an XP shop.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Meanwhile Doug doesn't raise any impediments but notes that he has spent his third day trying to write Unit Tests for a previously completed class ( Ed: The team doesn't know about Test Driven Development yet). Anything that stops code from being written, tested, deployed and making money.

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Failure is a consequence of your entire development system. Second Edition cover.

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LeanEssays

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

He led software development at Salesforce.com during its years of hyper growth, and is now SVP of Engineering at Twitter. A new release from development. A naive piece of code, the kind of thing you can’t test for. Let’s see how TOC might be applied to developing a software system. So there won’t be any more.” “Do

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LeanEssays

JUNE 5, 2015

Lean Product Development: The Predecessor During the 1980’s Japanese cars were capturing market share at a rate that alarmed US automakers. A year later, Harvard Business School published Product Development Performance. In 1991 the University of Michigan began its Japan Technology Management Program.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

APRIL 21, 2014

The role of the ScrumMaster is to help build the high performing team through observing their relationships, helping them understand Scrum, improving their technical practices, improving their relationship with their product owner, and improving the organization theyre part of. The two new teams, Beta and Gamma, are struggling.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. and now it’s time for an update.

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