Posts belonging to Category Agile

Notes from the First Jenkins User Conference

Today (Oct. 2nd), the first Jenkins User Conference happened in San Francisco. Despite a gorgeous sunny Sunday in the city, I made my way to the Marines’ Memorial Hotel, shortly before 9am. And, I was in good company: There was a good crowd already checked in, and per organizers they had over 400 registrations. Certainly [...]

20 Questions with Bill Portelli interview

MGI Research just published a detailed interview with CollabNet’s president, Bill Portelli. In this interview, Bill discusses his views on industry mega-trends like Agile and the Cloud, and how CollabNet is responding. The interview is available at http://www.mgiresearch.com/20-Questions/20-questions-with-collabnet-ceo-bill-portelli.html David ParkerDavid Parker, Vice President and General Manager, Scrum Business Line David leads CollabNet’s Scrum Business Line [...]

Reflections on the Agile 2011 Conference: Let’s get real!

On the tenth anniversary of the Agile Manifesto, the Agile 2011 conference held last week in Salt Lake City, UT was an important milestone. With about 1,600 visitors from around the world, this conference is testament to the extraordinary growth of Agile as a development framework. If the number of large-scale, global enterprises in attendance [...]

Closing the Agile Loop

Closing the Agile Loop – Continuous Integration, Continuous Information Early and continuous delivery of valuable software is the number one principle behind the Agile Manifesto. That’s why agile practices demand looking beyond code, to build and test. Continuous integration (CI) and test-driven development are accepted as critical elements to accelerate the software delivery process. However, [...]

Agile for Powerplant Design?

It is all too easy to think of agile as a silver bullet – a magical solution to any organization’s dysfunction and the failings of its product development process. We often have to warn our clients of the silver bullet mindset at the outset of engagements so that they don’t have false hopes about what [...]

Presenting “Agile Transformation Strategy” at Better Software Conf.

I’m presenting,  “Agile Transformation Strategy – A Blueprint for Enterprise Success” in Las Vegas, NV on June 5-11, 2011 at the Better Software Conference and Agile Development Practices West co-located Expo. Please attend my session on Thursday, June 9th at 12:45pm and discover; The Changing Face of Agile Agile Transformation Adoption Phases Pitfalls and Challenges [...]

Hey, Your Community Peanut Butter Is in My Agile Chocolate!

Ever since my first introduction to Agile software development (at the beginning of the Forge.mil project nearly two years ago), I’ve been noodling with the notion of how my primary role (Community Management) interfaces with and informs Agile. At first, it almost seemed like the beginning of the old Reese’s ® Peanut Butter Cup commercial [...]

Scrum and Benelux – leading the way

My feeling on my way home is that Benelux and the Nordic countries are still way ahead of the rest of us when it comes to Agile transformations and a core understanding of when the mechanics of Scrum can and should be used as a means to an end to increase throughput, ROI, or team morale.

Niche Speciation and Maladaptive Behavior in Agile Populations

Caveats about variants and misconceptions of Scrum and agile; Keep your mind on the spirit behind the letter of whatever agile methodology’s ‘law’ you’re subscribing to.

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This week I flew to Tokyo on a one week intensive road trip where, among other things, I was asked to takepart in two day long seminars about Scrum / Agile / Lean – one in Japan and one in Seoul. The first day long seminar was put on with help from our partners XL Soft and our amazing staff in Tokyo.