Thursday, August 14th, 2008
If you've been in software a while a lot of the time your gut starts to tell you that something feels wrong before you figure out exactly why. This year's Agile 2008 conference gave me several insights into why some things I've had deep reservations about are wrong in a ...
Tags: Agile, Distributed teams, Large teams, News & events, Toronto
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Bas Vodde's talk on Tuesday "The Trouble With Component Teams And An Alternative". The title is somewhat obtuse, but the talk was great. Essentially he was talking about the problems with scaling very large projects when the teams are focused around the components of the system rather than the features. ...
Tags: Agile, Large teams, Scrum, Toronto
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Scrum and XP from the trenches by Henrik Kniberg. I mentioned this book the other day as part of my post on books to read when choosing an agile process. I'm mentioning it again for two reasons; 1) it's a great read and 2) it's a really great read. See ...
Tags: Agile, Books, Large teams
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
"Agility and the Inconceivably Large" - Ade Miller & Eric Carter
This report outlines the experiences of the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office product unit (hereafter referred to as “product unit”) as it applied agile principles and practices while developing features for one of the largest commercially available pieces of ...
Tags: Agile, Large teams
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
So Eric Carter and I will be presenting at Agile 2007... Agility and the Inconceivably Large. I'll also be doing something in the Open Spaces sessions if I can get my act together.
I attended last year's conference, had a great time and learnt a lot in the process.
Tags: Agile, Large teams, News & events, VSTO, Washington DC
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