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I'll be repeating my one-day Zen of Agile Management workshop from QCon in London this past March, at Agile Practices in Orlando Florida on November 10th and again the following week at QCon in San Francisco on Tuesday November 18th . In both locations...
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I'm bringing my Zen of Agile Management workshop/class to Sao Paulo Brazil this October. This class has been universally popular since I first introduced it at VSLive in Orlando, February 2006. It's in a 2-day format so the pace will be easier...
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This week's StackOverflow Podcast is up: episode 20. We talked about the deadlock that was fixed, which was the last thing holding up the public beta... caused by a very small bug in third party libraries, which is exactly why I've always had...
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My long time colleague and collaborator Daniel Vacanti does not blog. He occasionally writes stuff down and some of that might even get published one day, but he doesn't blog. So I'm going to blog for him today... Dan has his own alternative to...
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Three years ago this week, I introduced a scheme for prioritizing requirements that was aligned with strategic planning and market segmentation and brought some rigor and objectivity to the art of assigning a priority to requirements. Initially, the scheme...
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A post in the Agile Management Yahoo! group has prompted me to make this second post with an example to elaborate on prioritizing and planning for market risk . Steven Gordon wrote: This approach seems oversimplified to me. In particular, I challenge...
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For several years, I've been promoting the notion that " Trust is the essence of agile ." Others like Clarke Ching have joined that chorus [See Carnival of Trust ]. This year, I've been articulating that the statement "[We value...
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This week's StackOverflow Podcast is up: episode 19. Jeff and I spent some time talking about the home page for StackOverflow. What goes there? What does it mean to vote on a question? We also talked about Aaron Swartz's article on How to Launch...
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It's official! There are kanban implementations on at least 4 continents now. Alisson Vale has written up [in portugese] his experience implementing kanban at Phidelis in Brazil. This seems like a very complete implementation. Alisson has a physical...
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Regular subscribers will have noticed that I'm blogging again! :-D Agilemanagement.net has been in transition. We've moved it over to be hosted with the Modus Cooperandi servers and web site. Since, its inception, agilemanagement.net was hosted...
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I wanted to return to Dave Laribee's post from the weekend, Introducing Kanban at Xclaim . I'd like to bring your attention to discussion below involving Derik Whittaker, Steven Harman, and Dave concerning retrospectives. For a long time I've...
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My main stage speech from Agile 2008 is available on InfoQ. It a 90 minute video with the powerpoint slides simultaneously displayed. This talk was aimed at the Agile community and pulled no punches about what I see as the failings within the Agile Alliance...
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Mike Bria has been following the trend that's emerging in the agile community to stop estimating user stories and adopt a pull based system, Is Estimating a Wasteful Practice? The idea that you don't estimate but focus on a low variability analysis...
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“Another programmer came to us. ‘I thought you should know that people are really unhappy,’ he said bluntly, ‘and it’s starting to make it so that people just complain all day, instead of doing their work, and that’s...
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Overnight, Dave Laribee drove a lot of new traffic to the Kanbandev Yahoo! group with this post about his kanban implementation at Xclaim. Seems Dave has been carefully reading Corey 's posts on implementing kanban. Dave's implementation looks...
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I'm giving the key note speech at the Speaking of Agile event in Sao Paulo this October. I'm also giving a 2 day tutorial prior to the event. If you are a follower of agile in Brazil, I hope to see you there. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, Agile...
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Jim Benson of Modus Cooperandi starts to lay out our vision for the future of the enterprise and management in the 21st Century over at Social Computing Magazine (how quaint). Technorati tag: Jim+Benson, Modus+Cooperandi, Social+Media, Management Read...
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When Apple’s iPhone 3G came out, I was pretty sure I’d get one. It had all the features I was waiting for. But the lines just weren’t going away. I searched Twitter . For a week, then two, every day brought fresh reports of five-hour waits. And then the...
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Modus Cooperandi (my firm) will be offering regular kanban training classes starting in September. These classes are open to any participants. Initially, they'll be held locally in Seattle just a few blocks from our office. We're looking to take...
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This week's StackOverflow Podcast is up: episode 18. It was the first chance I've gotten to speak to Jeff since the beta went live, which is, honestly, exceeding even my highest expectations. Performance is terrific. The site is crisp and clear...
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I have updated the Web site engine, and now the new registration process is not working. If you need access for seeing extra content, or posting something, you can use. User: dummy P: dummy Help: If anyone have any knowledge about tikiwiki, or php, and...
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Some CEO emailed me the other day. I don't remember who it was; people mail me all the time about their blah blah yawn product service thingy, and on the rare occasions I bother to read mail from strangers, I don't usually remember anything about...
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I'm going on some long needed (and hard earned) vacation. I won't be blogging again for about one month (so this will likely be my only entry for July). I've got a lot of REALLY GREAT and interesting books to try and catch up on. I hope to...
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Productivity: Concept *659. August 6 2008 (New) Productivity is delivering promised value to stakeholders. ‘Deliver’ means actually measurable handed over and available to stakeholders. ‘Promised’ means that clear written agreements, are made in contacts...
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Jurgen Appelo has an interesting article on StickyMinds entitled " Code Ownership Re-Visited " Jurgen prefers the term "artifact assignment" rather than "code ownership" and explains there are 4 methods of artifact assignment...
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