The title express it all. I 'm willing to learn Agile development, I'm new in this topic. I'm also interested in some of its flavor as Scrum. I'm wonder if there is a good website where could I find screencasts, webcasts or a training video series about Agile? Best to all, ...
My development team is working to the Scrum methodolody, pretty much. We have a prioritised product backlog, which we break down into sprints tracked by a burndown chart. Trouble is, the product managers (who gather requirements from the stakeholders) will give us an outline of the requirements, say a few days before the start of a spr...
Does anyone have a good team building excercise to help bring together disparate teams like the QA/Development teams? I am the companies "agile coach" (as much as I hate that term), I am the one that is tasked with making our company more agile and bring on more agile tasks/techniques. That being said, I am trying to mend gaps between ...
So I find myself working for a few weeks in a small team of four, including me. Quite a change from my last job at a 300+ developer shop where I'd been part of the adoption of an agile methodology. I've been sneakily introducing useful tools like a continuous integration server and am surreptitiously starting test-driven development. ...
I'm curious as to what other people use for physical Kanban/Scrum boards in their companies. I appreciate that because of sensitive business information you may not be able to provide a photo of the board. I"m looking at to find out what does your board looks like, and how you organize user stories and tasks as they move through a typi...
Hi, all. I'm interested in where to find information about agile software engineering development process metrics, what kind of variables are assessed to evaluate such processes? I'm interested in productivity, timeliness, staff utilization, and quality. I'm building an agent-based simulation to model an agile software development pr...
While trying to apply agile principles to our development process, in particular scrum principles and XP-like user stories, we faced a problem about the architecture. Maybe we are still too much linked to the architecture-centric development, however we are trying to maintain a strong component based development, mixed with the agile mo...
In my company we have the programmers, front end developers, designers, and UX team all participate in Agile groups. I am no Agile master but I understood that all members of a team should be able to be able to do any of the work. Having designers, the UX team, frond end developers, and sys admins join in on a vote to estimate how long...
I find that one of the most frustrating aspects to software development is finding a solution to a problem, forgetting it, then being faced with the same issue in the future only to forgot how you previously solved it. Or to write a useful bit of code, then on a later project not be able to find this code. My general question is this: H...
One recurring problem we have in projects is the fact that the stake holders only start looking properly into the delivered software until the near the final release date even though we deploy the sprint result into the test environment every time and demo from it and keep reminding them that it's really important to get their feedback d...
At my current company I have started to bring in agile practices and we're off to a good start. We're through our first release and are soon starting on our second release. While management has agreed not to introduce any new work during an iteration, scoping the release/feature planning is an ongoing work in progress. That being said, I...
What are the myths or misconceptions related to Agile? There are lot of misconceptions related to Agile that an average new comer may fall into. What are the misconceptions in the Agile world and how do you justify that it is truly a misconception? Update: Summary of Agile Myths Agile doesn't allow documentation Agile methods do no...
I recently discovered Corey Haines great site katacasts.com, and I find it to be an excellent learning resource as well as a source of inspiration. Are there any other sites where I can find videos of people performing katas? ...
I am used to thinking about time estimates in the way suggested by Joel Spolsky - that if a scheduled item takes more than 16 hours, it should be divided into smaller tasks. Now, I am implementing Scrum in my team together with Story Points based estimations. It seems to me that a good unit for a Story Point would be ideal man-hour, not ...
I'm trying to figure out how to solve some challenges that my team is facing while attempting to apply agile. The one that is causing the biggest headache at the moment is due to the dual role nature of projects that come into the business. Basically, we have a number of software that we produce and deploy for various markets. This soft...
How does a formal architecture specification fit in with agile development - if at all? I'm thinking specifically of Scrum, which makes no mention of an architecture amongst the official artifacts. Do you just let the architecture evolve "accidentally" (so to speak), do you spec it informally, or is there room for doing something lik...
Agile/Scrum development is a very collaborative development process. e.g. it requires developers to continuously communicate & work closely together day-in day-out. How do you handle your "off" days? Those days that you just don't have energy, can't think straight, don't really have anything to say at the standup meetings, etc. Just li...
I'm interested in learning how to Doctests and Unit tests in a more Agile / BDD way. I've found a few tutorials that seem reasonable, but they are just thumbnails. What I would really like to see is the source code of some Django projects that were developed BDD style. The things I'm unclear about are how do you handle request objects e...
I've found several blog posts where TDD/BDD is explained, but the examples are usually really basic. Usually they are just for Models. I want to see how people are really using BDD in Real Life. I'd love be pointed towards some Django apps that were built test first style so I can learn from them. I know that Rails had many examples, s...
I know Agile development is a different way of managing software development projects and it fundamentally differs from a more traditional waterfall approach to software development Some of the principles of agile software development are: Develop small, incremental releases and iterate The team must be empowered to make decisions s...