Defining Agile Roles. Www.agileproductdesign.com/downloads/AgileDevelopmentQuickReference.pdf. Elephants in the Room of Agile. The Case Against Agile: Ten Perennial Management Objections. Agile Project Management Group News. The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People | Value, Flow, Quality. We buy the books, read the blogs, look for insights on twitter, hope they will follow us back, and search their names. It may be known as cult of personality, but it is very clear that we are influenced by particular individuals in the Agile community. We have used a combination of statistics from a number of different sites, Amazon Book Sales (US, UK & EU), the top 200 Agile blogs, Google insight and trend information, Klout data, Twitter numbers and rankings, the top 100 Agile books (which measures reader's scores), and combined that with a final editorial decision to produce a list of the most influential people in Agile.
This list is definitely not meant to be definitive and is posted with both good intentions and with good humour. A lot of data was gathered using Mechnical Turk, and then has been compiled by the editor. As this is an editorial, thus subjective, it represents the opinions of the writer, not the company, nor the scores produced by the Mechanical Turk. 20. 18. 17. 8. Are You Agile or Iterative? I was talking to a couple of colleagues yesterday, and we all had similar observations about organizations that consider themselves Agile. Many years ago when asked if they do Agile software development, I’d hear responses like “uh, what’s that?”. Nowadays the response seems to be, “oh yes, we’re very agile” or some variation of that. From my experience, and from talking to other coaches and ‘Agile people’, we generally find that what these organizations are doing is iterative, not Agile.
More often than not I see organizations using Scrum, doing standups, 2 week sprints, demos and retrospectives but don’t behave differently than before they moved to Scrum. Sometimes management hears that their teams are Agile but don’t see much (or any) difference in outcomes. How do you know if you’re iterative or Agile? Keep in mind when I say “Iterative Teams” I am talking about teams who are “Agile in name only”. Iterative Teams: Is one better than the other? There are always options. Scrum Overview Diagram « Ship Software OnTime! Www.axosoft.com/Downloads/Scrum_Diagram.pdf. 8 Lessons From the First Scrum Team « High Tech in the Hub. Background I worked at the Burlington-based Easel Corporation for over four years in the early and mid-1990s, joining the company out of school and leaving it after its acquisition by VMARK.
I was a software engineer on the team developing Synchronicity, a suite of software development tools based on our proprietary Smalltalk environment. I like to call this period of time my PhD in object oriented technology. Long before Hibernate, Ruby and Eclipse, we were building a modern development environment that included a dynamic object-oriented programming language, visual programming editors, integrated analysis and design tools, platform independent run time, two way code generation, object to relational persistence framework, local object store, and more.
When I first joined the Synchronicity team, it consisted of two other engineers: John Scumniotales, who came from our consulting group at Easel, and Gerd Eisenmann, a recently relocated German engineer from the ENFIN acquisition. OpenAgile is an open learning system for delivering value | OpenAgile.com. Agile Perspectives from People10 » Beyond Scrum, Kanban and XP : The Total Agility framework of Four Quadrants© Agile has been an enigma to a lot of people except for the geeks and evangelists.. And even they all had their own interpretation of ‘what is agile’. Some say it is about ‘teamwork’. Some people swear by its technical practices that bring about the best in class product quality. Some talk about how the features are managed in chunks to bring about maximum business value and quick delivery.. Every agile practitioner has a different answer. The blind men and the agile elephant (courtesy nature.com; G. Product quality, motivated teams, happy client, fast-paced delivery – that all sound like a lot to achieve… The Utopia?
One of the main reasons why people get confused about Agile is because it is spoken in many dialects like Scrum, XP, FDD, Kanban … And most of the time, the people who speak these dialects forget to mention how all these can in fact, co-exist beautifully. How do you achieve best product quality? Agile Four Quadrants Which brings me to the below ‘Total Agility’ model: Agile Pain Relief.