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Book Review: Scrum Insights for Practitioners by Hiren Doshi
The Scrum framework as described in Scrum Guide (available for free at ScrumGuides.org) by its creators Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland is apparently simple, lightweight and minimally prescriptive in terms of rules, people roles and artifacts. It is rather easy … Continue reading
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3 Pillars of a Retrospective
In my previous blog post, I made an appeal to treat retrospectives as sacrosanct and not to skip them. Here I will discuss the 3 Pillars of Retrospectives i.e. the critical success factors without which retrospectives will not be effective … Continue reading
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Tagged Agile, People, Project Management, Retrospectives, Software Development
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Retrospectives are Sacrosanct ! Don’t Skip Them !
“Practice makes a man perfect“. “Persistence is the key to success“. “Through practice even an idiot can become wiser“. These are all great sayings ! Sadly they don’t hold good if you are practicing or persisting with a wrong thing. … Continue reading
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Book Review – Disciplined Agile Delivery
Success of agile methods in small organizations with co-located teams is well-known. But scaling Agile to an enterprise level is a different ball game. It requires a more rigorous approach than many of the popular agile methodologies . The rigor … Continue reading
Book Review: Interpreting the CMMI – A Process Improvement Approach
Perhaps no other process improvement framework has ever been so misinterpreted and misused by the IT industry as CMMI. The original purpose of CMMI i.e. process improvement is largely forgotten and the focus of the CMMI initiatives in most of … Continue reading
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Book Review: Head First – Software Development
Authors: Dan Pilone & Russ Miles The software development approach described in this book is primarily based on Agile development principles and the Scrum framework (though not explicitly mentioned as such). It also introduces the concepts underlying technical practices like … Continue reading
Book Review: Beautiful Teams
Editors: Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene This book provides deep insights into what makes a good team tick, and what one can do to make a mediocre team better. The editors of this book are well experienced in software development … Continue reading
Book Review: Coaching Agile Teams
Author: Lyssa Adkins Coaching agile teams is a challenging task. It means going beyond establishing and maintaining basic agile processes. The ultimate goal of an Agile coach should be to enable creation of a high-performing, self-sustaining, continuously improving and innovating team. … Continue reading
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Book Review: Test-Driven Development – A Practical Guide
“Failures are the stepping stones to success”. This is very much true of how Test-driven Development (TDD), an Agile software engineering practice works. Unlike the conventional software development where the programmer writes the code and then tests it out, TDD … Continue reading