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Category Archives: agile
My Interview with Lisa Crispin
A few weeks ago, I got a chance to talk with Lisa Crispin. Lisa is a prominent figure in the testing world, and co-authored “Agile Testing”. This was a great opportunity for me to talk to someone from the tester side, as usually I talk with developers. And I felt this was more of a
Can software succeed even if Agile failed?
I’ve got very interesting feedback for my last post about the decline of agile. I strongly believe that producing quality software, regardless of how it is produced is the most important thing we can do, regardless if we’re developers, managers or anything in between. But is it enough to save agile? Maybe it’s the wrong
4 Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining
I’ve been thinking lately about how agile turned out to be the way we know it today. And the more I think about it, I get more depressed. You see, agile was supposed to save us all. It was supposed to be the bridge between business and developers. And 10 years after its inception, we
The Agile Tribe Wars: The Prezi
I want to thank everyone who come to my presentation yesterday. I got my inspiration (and a few jokes) from the following presentations: Agile Overview – Robert Martin The Land that Scrum Forgot – Robert Martin The Mistake at the Heart of Agile – Michael Feathers And for the people who want to read the
The Agile Tribe Wars–At the next Agile Practitioners IL Meeting
If you’re in Israel, and understand Hebrew – you’re eligible! Join me on Sunday, 4-Dec-11, for a lesson you’ll never forget (or at least for the length of the presentation) – An agile history lesson. I’m going to talk about how we got here, what did we do on the way, discuss the question on
Are Scrum and Waterfall The Same?
I’ve gone back to watch Uncle Bob Martin’s presentation “Agile overview” from NDC 2010 (while you’re at it check his “The land that scrum forgot”, the man is such a storyteller!). In the presentation, Bob tells about Winston Royce’s study “Managing the development of large software systems”, from 1970. This article is the origin of
Velocity: Agile Killer or Unsuspecting Mark?
Jim Highsmith recently wrote about “Velocity is Killing Agility”. Velocity was originally used as a planning tool. You measured velocity in the past, in order to see how much throughput you’ll get in the future. If we put it very simply: Throughput = Capacity x Velocity Now, as Jim describes in his post, velocity has
Software Developers are NOT Special
As I was going through Twitterland, I heard this strange sound: “Coders are special. We are expected to know how to do things we’ve never done before and estimate how long they will take." Well, yes and no. The part about estimating how long it will take is definitely true. See, there’s someone paying for
Upcoming Presentations: Florida First!
Here’s a short, incomplete list of my upcoming public speaking engagements. When I know, you’ll know. I’ll be speaking at the Agile Development Practices East Conference on Wednesday November 9th, at the Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida. My talk is about “8 Principles for Better Unit Testing”. I’ll be at the conference area throughout Wednesday