Transitioning to Agile Testing Posted
I have a new Stickyminds.com column up: Transitioning to Agile Testing. Enjoy!
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Agile Managers: The Essence of Leadership
I wrote an article for Cutter IT Journal, called “Agile Managers: The Essence of Leadership.” Cutter has made the entire issue available for free (registration required). See here. If you have comments, please leave them here. I will be posting the article at some point, but not too soon.
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Multiple Product Owners for an Iteration
I’ve been working with clients making the transition to Agile. They are accustomed to a product manager “owning” a product, and negotiating for people to work on their product. Of course, that means begging, borrowing, stealing people from other projects and lots of multitasking. It also means that specific people have very specific knowledge of
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Wage Cost and Project Labor Cost
I’ve been working with teams who want to move to agile. Some people on their teams are in another location, where the salaries are cheaper. It’s difficult to get agile started with a geographically distributed team. If everyone’s distributed, it’s easier than if just some people–especially if they are all one function, such as developers
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How Short Can Your Iterations Be?
One of the problems many people encounter when moving to agile is that they (literally) cannot imagine iterations shorter than 4 weeks. I rarely recommend an iteration as long as 4 weeks now, and if people insist on 3 weeks, suggest they find the root cause for the reason their iteration needs to be so
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Still Time to Reserve Your Spot for "3 Crucial Factors…"
Wow! I can hardly believe how many people have signed up for the brand-new free teleclass, “3 Crucial Factors For Preventing Your Agile Titanic” that Gil Broza and I will be teaching next week! I guess we struck a nerve with many people who want (or need) to get Agile going, and who don’t have
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Management Debt, Technical Debt, and Decision-Making
Dave and Bob have great comments on my post, Might Three Backlogs Be Better Than One?. Dave is describing situations where management is making reasonable decisions, not incurring management debt, and by extension, technical debt. Bob and I have experience with significant management debt. (Take a look at Musings About Management Debt for more information
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Might Three Backlogs Be Better Than One?
I’ve been working with several clients on their transition to agile approaches to their projects. They all have a common state: Many features to implement Huge technical debt Many defects They want to get a handle on all the work they have to do. I suggested they consider three backlogs, making sure that for a
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What Would a Successful Agile All-Remote Team Look Like?
In their comments to my post, Agile and Remote People: Part 1, Telecommuting, Matt, Lisa, Pete, Abby all had great rebuttals. They successfully make their remote teams work. They have successfully built trust. They use a variety of communications tools that allow their team members to work together. Good for them. (I mean it. I am
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Agile and Remote People: Part 1, Telecommuting
A twitter follower was concerned with a piece of my post, Do What’s Effective For You, when I spoke of team bits. Was I saying you could not telecommute and do agile? First, let me explain what a team bit is. A team bit is a person or a group of people grouped by geography