Conventional thinking would conclude that agile and ISO must not be compatible. After all, ISO is often characterized as being heavy on process / heavy on documentation – the op...
This paper tells the story of how the team managed to speed up delivery whilst raising quality at the same time. conject used to release complete modules of their Internet platfor...
Many people ask the question “Does Scrum scale?” especially those who have been scarred by Scrum done badly or those who are resistant to change. Our experience has led us to ...
Design is an inherently multidisciplinary endeavor. This raises the question of how to develop systems in ways that can best leverage the perspectives, practices, and knowledge ba...
In two years of leading agile projects at Avanade, an organization heavy in recent college hires, I’ve learned a number of lessons about how to be successful with junior develop...
Some projects are simply too big to finish on the release schedule that you want to maintain. Rally’s agile engineering team delivered a very disruptive architectural change las...
This paper describes the authors’ experiences creating a full Build Management System from a simple Version Control System. We will explore how the XP values of simplicity, feed...
In 2006, Oxygen Media CEO Geraldine (Gerry) Laybourne, the woman largely responsible for Nickelodeon’s early success, partnered with her XP/Scrum development team to create a ne...
Zorro is a system designed to automatically determine whether a developer is complying with an operational definition of Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices. Automated recogn...