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Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:28 AM

Corey Ladas explains Scrum-ban

Cory has a great post titled: Scrum-ban | Lean Software Engineering. In it he describes how a team can take advantage of kanban within a Scrum environment. While I am sure that there will be those who insist that Scrum doesn't need to be improved, there...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:42 AM

Agile Open Northwest 2008 - Mar. 18-19 in Seattle, WA

I attended AONW last year and had a fabulous time. It was great to reconnect with some of the local practitioners and have some really interesting conversations and be introduced to new idea. If you can make it I would highly recommend attending this...
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Monday, February 25, 2008 4:04 PM

Expedited Stories

I mentioned in my No More Iterations post that we didn't really know how support requests were going to affect the overall system. As is often the case I didn't have to wait long to find out. Within days of moving to the limited WIP approach we got a...
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Friday, February 22, 2008 8:53 AM

It's Not OK To Skip The Standup

Travis has a great post on why It's Not OK To Skip The Standup .
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Friday, February 08, 2008 11:00 AM

30 Second Estimating

In my initial post No More Iterations I mentioned that estimating was a factor in the change we were making. Specifically: Story size was difficult to estimate and kept crossing iteration boundaries. The programmers really didn't see the value of estimating...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:13 PM

Agile PM Tools (self-Hosted)

I posted a bit of research I did for some externally hosted tools previously. Here is a quick rundown of some self-hosted tools. VersionOne Community (free - I've used it and I like it, 5 user limit) XPlanner (free OSS, seems good, hasn't been updated...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:44 PM

Added Wrike to the list of Agile PM tools

Check out the post . Thanks to Jerry for the pointer.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:01 PM

It's okay to THINK for Yourself

I can't really add anything to Geoff's post . Go read it and apply it.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:59 AM

Agile PM Tools (Hosted)

(Updated 2/6/08 to include Wrike, also see the list of self hosted tools ) I've been researching agile PM tools to decide if we want to continue using our existing tool, switch to another or go 100% manual. There are a few vendors that provide a hosted...
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Monday, February 04, 2008 2:53 PM

Continuous Production - Production-ready software…any time

The guys from Stelligent have another great post. This time on Continuous Production , the next step after Continuous Integration.
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