Jurgen Appelo Guest Post by Jurgen Appelo: I once read that “managing is harder than programming, because making people do what is needed is far more difficult than making computers do what is needed”. (Don’t flame me if you don’t agree. I’m quoting from an unknown source here.) This quote kept running through my mind [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Agile Practices'
Guest Post: Where there’s people, there’s problems
March 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Agile Practices, Corporate Culture (or not), Guest Posts
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Conformity, innovation, and progress
December 2nd, 2008 · 37 Comments · Agile Practices, Corporate Culture (or not)
In the 1950′s, Solomon Asch, conducted a series of experiments designed to understand the phenomenon we know as conformity. In his experiments, a group of participants were seated around a table and asked to examine a series of vertical lines. They were then asked to tell the group which vertical line, A, B, or C, [...]
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Mid-week Iterations
November 10th, 2008 · 47 Comments · Agile Practices
A question I field frequently is “When should we start and end our iterations?” For a long time, I worked on teams that started our iterations on Monday and ended them two weeks later on Friday. We did our planning meetings on Mondays, and our review, demo and retrospectives on Fridays. But, the more I [...]
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QA and Testing in an Agile Environment
November 5th, 2008 · 54 Comments · Agile Practices, Quality and Your Customers
In the past few weeks I’ve been asked about and have been considering exactly how to fit QA and testing into a two week iteration. A primary concern of the folks I’ve been talking with is that QA’s and testers on an agile team have nothing to do at the start of an iteration. The [...]
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