Posts belonging to Category Scrum
Posted by David Parker on December 10, 2011
Earlier this week, we ran a webinar entitled “Technical Debt – the High Cost of Future Change”. The topic was of course, technical debt in Agile projects. Although we left what we thought was ample time for questions, as it turned out there were many more than we had time for. So, as promised, we [...]
Categories: Agile, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Scrum
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Tags: agile, agile alm, Agile methodology, Agile Transformations, Continuous Integration, Cyclomatic Complexity, INVEST, pair programming, Planning poker, PPM, Project Portfolio Management, Scrum, Technical debt
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Posted by David Parker on September 16, 2011
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 [...]
Categories: Agile, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Cloud Services, CollabNet TeamForge, Community Management, Government 2.0, Scrum, Subversion, forge.mil
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Posted by David Parker on August 19, 2011
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 [...]
Categories: Agile, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Scrum
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Posted by Luke Walter on June 23, 2011
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 [...]
Categories: Agile, Community Management, Scrum
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Posted by Guy Martin on January 18, 2011
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 [...]
Categories: Agile, Community Management, Scrum
| Tags: agile, community, culture, open source, Scrum, software development
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on January 10, 2011
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.
Categories: Agile, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Scrum
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Posted by Luke Walter on December 30, 2010
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.
Categories: Agile, Scrum
| Tags: misconceptions about Scrum and agile; agile variants; spirit behind the letter of agile methodology
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on November 18, 2010
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.
Categories: Agile, Scrum
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Posted by Luke Walter on November 17, 2010
Since entering the agile transformation facilitation business in 2004, we’ve fielded a huge range of questions and concerns from all types of organizations – from corporations to non-profits to government agencies. While every case has its particulars, they often share a common set of concerns – ones apparently not readily answered by the standard characterizations [...]
Categories: Agile, Scrum
| Tags: Agile FAQ, Agile Transformations
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Posted by Dana Nourie on October 19, 2010
Today CollabNet announced our acquisition of Codesion,Inc. (formerly CVSDude), which provides the world’s leading enterprise-grade Subversion hosting platform and serves more than 3,400 customers and 70,000 users in 90 countries.Codesion’s best-in-class provisioning technology delivers Subversion, Git, and other applications as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, helping developers to code, connect, and deploy in the Cloud with a few clicks of the button – it’s an instant-on cloud.CollabNet’s acquisition of Codesion is a natural fit for both companies.
Categories: Agile, Cloud Services, Scrum
| Tags: agile alm, cloud, codesion, collabnet, Scrum, scrumworks, subversion
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