Xebia

MARCH 19, 2024

Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? A Scrum Master struggling to survive under the tyranny of micromanagement? Or maybe a manager, leader, or coach who wants to understand how to support their team better? Micromanaging isn’t always bad, especially for inexperienced teams; it could be beneficial.

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scruminc

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I want to reclaim and redefine sustainable pace, elevating it from a mere concept to a potent tool in the arsenal of Agile teams and organizations. in 2001, a group of software development experts gathered to find a common language for their lightweight processes. In a meeting at Snowbird, Utah, U.S.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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. User Stories.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

They didn't feel they had visibility into timelines and costs for development of their software. In three of the cases, the founder was finding that the software teams (1 in-house, 2 outsourced) were delivering relatively well in the short-run. They couldn't plan their business. My belief is that you shouldn't sign that contract.

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Codegiant

MAY 3, 2020

Kanban vs Scrum?—?Every Every Difference Your Team Needs To Know [2020] Scrum is the most popular Agile framework today ( 56% of all Agile teams use Scrum ). But is it the most effective one, particularly for your team? Or is Kanban, one of the trending agile frameworks today , a better fit for your team?

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Xebia

JUNE 20, 2022

Some companies ignore architects in their transformation, some will upskill their architects, and some will make the DevOps teams responsible for the architecture. The scrum masters are concerned with the agile process on a team level. Well before, architects did their job in a waterfall organization outside the teams.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Depending on team size and structure, QA is viewed and utilized differently, but tailored to specific organization needs. Other variations of QA-related job offerings are QA analyst, QA engineer, automation engineer, test automation developer, etc. Besides that, manual testing is used as an initial step in developing automated tests.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 28, 2020

When working through an Agile transformation, many organizations struggle to efficiently re-organize delivery teams. Although you won’t find specific mention in the Agile Manifesto or the 12 Principles , most Agile frameworks (such as Scrum and XP) note that Agile teams should strive to be cross-functional. Delayed feedback.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

APRIL 2, 2020

Is your team running so smoothly that it hums? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analyst job description BAs are responsible for creating new models that support business decisions by working closely with finance and IT teams to establish initiatives and strategies aimed at improving revenue and/or optimizing costs. Business analyst skills The business analyst position requires both hard skills and soft skills.

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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. Trust me?—?new

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Openxcell

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Software Development Life Cycle – Overview. SDLC stands for Software Development Life Cycle. System engineers and developers use them to plan for, design, build, test, and deliver information systems. It greatly influences creating a well-managed, comprehensive structure of a development project in the IT world.

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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. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

We asked the team what books they are currently nose-deep in, or that they highly recommend others check-out. Jessica Larsen, Product Owner, Scrum Inc. For me, this book provided great empirical evidence and theoretical basis for why the Scrum Values and pillars of the Toyota Way are so important in the workplace.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 12, 2019

Hardening Sprints are one of the most common kinds of Scrum Anti-Patterns: ways of addressing recurring problems that seem like effective solutions at the time but in fact hamper productivity or create more problems later on. In software development work, a design pattern is a description of a solution to a recurring problem.

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Codegiant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This is an article about scrum ceremonies. I’ll cover the 5 types of scrum meetings. Each scrum ceremony — be it the daily scrum, the scrum retro, the sprint planning, the sprint review, or the backlog refinement — is timeboxed. It really means a lot.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 1, 2021

A Sprint Backlog consists of a set of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that the Developers think they can complete in the Sprint, along with the work needed, described in small enough chunks that progress can be tracked throughout the Sprint. Most Scrum Teams simply use whatever their online Scrum tool feeds them for their Sprint Backlog.

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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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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

JUNE 11, 2019

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

From a team of 30 people to now a giant tech corporation with over 70,000 employees, Google is one of the hallmarks of OKR as an organisational goal-setting methodology. The company used to adopt the “rank and yank” system wherein managers had to identify their least productive team members through a yearly evaluation. Take The Test.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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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. Make the investments and ignore the practices, and your teams are still likely to improve.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Therefore, we went to sleep on a Friday and next Monday we were now an “Agile” team. Not As Easy As 1, 2 , 3 … SCRUM. Situations like this are not uncommon.

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scruminc

DECEMBER 3, 2020

How The Updated Scrum Guide Drives Focus, Alignment, And Value Delivery. That is the point of Scrum. . In updating the 2020 Scrum Guide, the co-creators of Scrum didn’t change Scrum itself. Arguably the most notable update in the 2020 Scrum Guide shows how this clarity will drive better outcomes.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 29, 2019

It will help your team share new strategies, open new business opportunities, share best practices and find solutions to challenges the company face. Decide on what platform can be used to document this information, how to save and share it, and how to curate information that others will be adding.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This article will guide you through all the steps of a new product development (NPD) process and give you some insights into implementing best practices en route from a pure idea to roll-out and selling. What is a new product development process? Put together, these efforts compose a new product development (NPD) process.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In our Scrum Alone is Not Enough discussion on Portfolio Management , we talked about what it is, and how the use of a Portfolio Kanban Board can help visualize challenges that are inhibiting work, including with parallel teams. They need documentation to be usable, and marketing for people to find them in the first place.

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Codegiant

APRIL 21, 2020

Software Development Life Cycle?—?The The Ultimate Guide [2020] [link] The software development life cycle is about producing high-quality software promptly. And your team needs to follow the software development life cycle steps to achieve that. It’s also essential that your team adheres to the proper SDLC model.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Communities of Practice should be able to provide an opportunity for your team to build their expertise and deepen their knowledge in your industry. However, in its early stage, initiating and encouraging your team to make CoPs work can be a bit challenging. Survey your employees to define actual problems. In conclusion.

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Mentormate

JULY 18, 2023

Let’s address the elephant in the room: business analysts are often perceived as rigid creatures, bound by rules, diagrams, and meticulous documentation. But here’s the secret sauce: business analysts are also the drivers of change, the catalysts that push teams to achieve unprecedented levels of agility.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Meanwhile, developers think of the product in terms of its internal characteristics. That’s why a Business Analyst steps in to translate customer’s needs into requirements, and further transform them into tasks for developers. Solid arrows show how requirement types (ovals) are sorted into the documents (rectangles).

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Apiumhub

JUNE 27, 2022

In this article I would like to share my experience as a Product Owner supporting one of Apiumhub’s smallest teams. When I joined, the team was formed by: One permanent Backend Developer with some Front End skills. One Front End developer part time. No QA, no Scrum Master… and no PO until I landed here!

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Apiumhub

MARCH 17, 2022

If we transfer the analogy to the software world, we see that software development companies may have multiple teams working on a piece of software, and that the software is developed in phases or pieces that are then integrated with each other. Creating mocks from documentation is easy. A real-world case.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Example: if we measure Velocity (number of Story Points per Sprint), teams will rapidly find ways of inflating their Velocity (estimate higher, reduce effort on testing, etc.) This may be bad perhaps new code was introduced without accompanying Unit tests. How will a smart team game this metric? Static Code Analysis (e.g.

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