FYI. The results of the OWASP Certification Survey are posted here: http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2008/07/owasp-certification-survey-results.html If you have...
Modus Cooperandi has finally launched our public training offering on kanban systems for software development! This one-day course will teach aspects of lean...
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I've never really been big on iteration and project retrospectives. It's taken me a long time to understand why? Finally, I had the epiphany reading Dave...
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Interesting. How do you feel that issue management and operations review address the issues that Retrospectives are supposed to address? I regard those two ...
Both operations reviews and daily standups can be about process improvements. Dave Laribee certainly reports that many smaller process improvement issues come...
This is one of my more important blog posts in a long time. This one has been on my backlog for 8 months. I've been talking about this stuff at conferences but...
Woo hoo! I like it! Maybe I really did help start something when I coined the phrase "The first thing [for an Agile project] to build is TRUST" on the XP list...
Great post. You got me thinking. In addition to trust I would add forgiveness, or as Brad mentioned, being tolerant of failure. This seems like a field that...
Hi Dean, I agree about failure tolerance. The key author in this space is Richard Farson. In my book I described Failure Tolerance effectively as "maturity...
Hi David, Whilst I understand your reasoning, it is refreshing to know there are "Agile" companies that are succeeding in difficult social environments. One...
Thanks for sharing this Matt! Yes, Brazil is a low social capital country. So this is great to here. Is there more I can read about this? Has someone written...
I've just posted some of my latest thinking on prioritization. An expansion of my ideas on strategic alignment and market segmentation that I first posted...
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:20 PM, David J Anderson ... This approach seems oversimplified to me. In particular, I challenge the assumption that the low risk...
Steve, It's evident to me from your reply that a real world example would help. Let's imagine we are going to enter the cell phone market. Let's first define...
Hi David, I suggest you read the book called "Maverick"; by Ricardo Semler, the head of the company, which describes the transformation they have gone through...
... That looks dangerously close to trying to categorize the request based on its perceived likelihood (risk of occurrence) and its "position"; in the...
Yes, Cost Saver is clearly a good categorization for internal IT I believe that there is an equivalent of Table Stakes, something like Parity feature but I...
I have a number of questions about the suggested approach for prioritizing projects, but let me start with these few: (1) An approach to prioritizing...
Richard, Thanks for your reply. Actually, we're not talking about prioritizing project but rather the feature mix within a project scope. How does that affect...
Following the recent growth of discussion around contracting with agile outsource shops or agile teams contracting with clients, and some recent conference...
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Fellow Agilists, This is the third 2-day intensive Agile Seminar I have hosted through ACM chapters in Boston. My goal is to bring 2 or more masters of a...
Greetings All ! The Maryland Chapter of APLN and the Greater Baltimore Chapter of SPIN are pleased to announce their upcoming meeting on a very interesting...
Here is the video from my talk on Agile Acceptance Testing this week at Skills Matter. The talk is completely non-technical, focusing on how this practice...
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