Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Thanks everyone who attended my talk today at Agile Development Practices 2008. The PDF of the slide deck is available for download and includes some additional speaker notes. This talk was based on two papers; Agility and the Inconceivably Large and Distributed Agile Development at patterns & practices which ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Florida, Large teams
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
As previously noted I'm going to be in Florida next week speaking at Agile Development Practices 2008 on Thursday afternoon (session details). It looks like there's a great lineup of speakers for the conference... and then there's me. Here's the abstract for my talk... Scaling Agile Up and Out: ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events, Florida, Large teams
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Bugs! How do you handle fixing bugs and enhancement requests on an existing release of your product while your team(s) are working on the next release? Typically as you start work on a new version of your product there will be bugs or enhancement requests coming in from users of ...
Tags: agile, Large teams, Proven practices, Scrum
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
During the distributed agile workshop at Agile 2008 there was some discussion of Conway's Law (named after Melvin Conway). Conway's law basically says
Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.
So distributing your team not only effects its communication dynamics adds dysfunction, it also may impact the actual ...
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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, Events, Large teams, Toronto
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