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Survey Confirms Biggest Agile Challenges Are Communication and Continuous Improvement
A new survey, conducted by Serena Software at the recent Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas has confirmed that whilst projects using Agile are working well, they could be much better and some of the biggest challenges include upsteam and downstream communication.
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Pair Programming Gets Mainstream Coverage, Lukewarm Response
The Wall Street Journal has begun to take notice of the growing number of technology companies that have been practicing Pair Programming and has published their take on the practice in an article titled Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson in Sharing.
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Dave Snowden: Agile - sound practice, poor theory
Dave Snowden gave a talk last week in which he discussed how Agile is founded on good practices, but often fails to scale effectively because practitioners do not understand why the techniques work, and thus fail to adapt them to the complex environments which are characteristic of large organisations. Asking management to adopt agile won't work - agile must adapt to complex business realities.
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Agile 2012 Session: Stop Listening to Your Customers
Brandon Carlson gave a talk at Agile 2012 titled Stop Listening to Your Customers in which he makes the case for using deep analytics and application instrumentation to discover customer behavior and use that to help guide product requirements. He spoke about the impact of wasted effort and unused features and how just listening to customer requests will result in unused, bloated products.
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Community-Driven Research: Most Important and Adoption-Ready Agile Practices?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with a third question about the "Most Important & Adoption-Ready Agile Practices?". This is part of a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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Wikispeed - Doing Awesome with Agile
Wikispeed founder Joe Justice gave a talk in Wellington, New Zealand, this week in which he spoke about the Wikispeed mission of "Rapidly Solving Problems for Social Good", starting by using agile techniques to build a 100MPG vehicle with the intent of creating a new approach to motor-vehicle manufacturing, using open-source and crowd-source approaches building on agile values and principles.
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Agile Marketers Create an Agile Marketing Manifesto at SprintZero
A group of self styled "Agile Marketers" discussed several independent Agile marketing manifestos evolved in past couple of years to come up with a version agreed widely by the community at SprintZero, a first ever gathering of Agile Marketers on 11th of June at Mindjet in San Francisco.
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To Deliver Innovation Don't FedEx It, ShipIt!
After seven years, over 500 innovation projects and high profile endorsements from Dan Pink and other leading publications that resulted in hundreds of organisations copying the concept, Australian software company Atlassian has had to rename its famous innovation day concept.
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Does Agile Make the PMO Obsolete?
At the recent Agile Australia conference Agile coach Renee Troughton spoke about her experiences changing the governance model at large organizations in Australia and New Zealand. Other commentators talk about the need for "Fluid IT" and discuss governance models that radically change or remove the need for the PMO.
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A Very Personal Look at 12 Years of Agile
Simon Baker from Energized Work talks about past, present and future of Agile in his paper "No bull". The publication covers Baker's 12 years of experience with different teams and companies.
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Survey Confirms Scaling Agile Across The Organisation Is Still A Challenge
Forrester have recently released the results of their November 2011 Global Agile Software Application Development Online Survey in a report entitled "Survey Results: How Agile Is Your Organization?" It contains a number of interesting findings around how organisations that have adopted Agile are dealing with their implementation.
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How to prioritize tasks based on their value
Bob Marshall in his new blog post, "The Value", summarises his research on different methods of prioritisation. Together with Grant Rule he developed a new way of understanding team and company goals.
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Agile adoption changes organizations policies and facilities
A number of organizations have recently acknowledged the impact that adopting Agile techniques has had beyond the software development areas. This news item examines the impact on two very different organisations - SAP in the design of their new cloud computing development facility and Valve Software Corporation's employment policies.
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The Management View of Agile - Unaware or Unwilling?
A series of recent articles by Steve Denning on Forbes have highlighted the challenges that the Agile community faces to get acceptance by mainstream management.
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Product Owner should deliver Enabling Specifications
Scrum community leaders recommend Product Owners to deliver an Enabling Specification as a part of a User Story to improve the efficiency of the development team.