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01.10.2010
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VersionOne with Bugzilla quips
Bugzilla has a rarely used feature called quips. It just displays random quotes on the top of each page from a database to which clever new sentences can be added incredibly easily. Here at BalaBit we love this feature... Read more...
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11.03.2009
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Inferences From AgilePalooza
Last week we had an entire day event “AgilePalooza – EMC Private Day” organized by VersionOne at EMC. One would expect such sessions to be product centric and more of marketing and sales pitch about their product. Anyone coming to this event with that expectation would have been disappointed as that was indeed not the case. Read more...
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10.31.2009
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Agilepalooza: Visual Artifacts for Agile Teams
October 30, 2009 I attended Agilepalooza in Natick MA. The event was hosted by VersionOne. This was an openspace event, so the participants created and hosted the agenda. I wanted to talk about UX stuff so I proposed a talk "Visual Artifacts for Agile Teams." Here are my notes from the talk. Read more...
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08.25.2009
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Agile Software Development - Rational Software Mini Conference
I'm attending a mini-software development conference host by IBM at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. The conference is only two days and I'll be tweeting a few bits of advice and updating this article with the key takeways from the various sessions on Agile software development using IBM's Rational tool suite. Read more...
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08.01.2009
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Kanban Blogosphere Roundup August 1st
Customer demand is finally driving the major tools vendors to respond and supply Kanban features in their product. Here David Laribee demonstrates on video, the shiny new Kanban features in the VersionOne product. This is very significant. Read more...
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07.23.2009
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VersionOne's State of Agile Survey 2009 Open
For the past four years VersionOne has run a survey for Agile adoption and published the results to the community. While it tends to lean towards people already adopting Agile practices, it is nice to see some numbers on other people's adoptions. Read more...
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05.11.2009
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Scrum Tools | VersionOne | Review
VersionOne is one of most well-known tools to manage agile projects on the market. With a great amount of functionalities, VersionOne can be used with many agile flavors, Scrum included. Read more...
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03.26.2009
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New to agile? Tools for distributed agile
I've been working the past several weeks with some highly distributed teams. Each team requires a way to track their project effectively (when you have people in 6 different states and a few countries cards on the wall no longer work!) Read more...
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02.18.2009
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Jira - not so great for agile
I previously blogged about trying to use Atlassian Jira as an agile project management tool. My current client already uses Jira across multiple projects and they are reluctant to change tools. Read more...
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02.03.2009
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Scrum Tools | VersionOne
I know VersionOne since I used it 3 years ago. V1 is a very powerful Scrum Tool that helped a lot teams all over the world. Read more...
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01.26.2009
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Agile Chronicles #9: Scope Creep
In this article, I discuss how Scrum for the most part brings Scope Creep under control, the areas where it doesn't, and what you can do about it. Read more...
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01.13.2009
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Agile ERP Implementatation
For some time the 'buzz' in development is Agile (aka Extreme) development. What if these same concepts and ideals were applied to the implementation process for an ERP application? Read more...
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12.17.2008
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Scrum Shock Therapy, Part 2
I often find myself at new companies and need to work with a bigger picture than focusing solely on the team. As is evident from the polls and surveys above, we need to address management as well. Read more...
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12.09.2008
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A Kinder, Gentler Agile?
So, 2008 is fast drawing to a close, and in the U.S, our economy is in the worst straits since the great depression. Without intending to be polyanna-ish about the economy, I do feel pleased with the immense progress Agile methods have made in the past few years. Read more...
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12.09.2008
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What Is Agile Software Development?
Agile Software Development is the 80/20 rule at work. If you work in marketing communications you know that your work product has become digital. You've become a software developer, like it or not. Read more...
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12.07.2008
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Agile Chronicles #6: Tools, Extra Merge Day, and Postponed Transitions
This entry is about defining the tools we use for communication in a geographically dispersed team, why we added an extra day for merging code into trunk amongst a branch, and why we've postponed the development of transitions. Read more...
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12.06.2008
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Comfortably Scrum: Sprint Planning Using Conchango's Sprint Task Board Application
After my last blog post about the Agile features in the upcoming 2010 release of VSTS and TFS I got to thinking about some comments by Jeff Hunsaker. I had complained about the lack of good Sprint planning features in TFS... Read more...
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12.01.2008
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Comfortably Scrum: Will VSTS 2010 be More Agile Friendly?
I was very excited about all the new features I kept hearing were coming to VSTS/TFS 2010 (formerly Rosario). I was especially interested in some talk about adding more Agile friendly functionality into both VSTS and TFS. Read more...
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11.24.2008
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Agile Risk Planning...
Many environments don't even do risk management, so my theory is that something light covering 60% of your needs is better than nothing at all. Read more...
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11.19.2008
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Story Pts vs. Capacity Hrs...
Philosophically, you want to use story points and velocity to plan your sprint commitment. You want to use hours and capacity to measure how you track towards that commitment throughout the sprint. Read more...
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11.17.2008
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Scrum Shock Therapy, Part 1
Scrum consists of a straightforward process, half a bunch of roles and a few artifacts. Sounds simple enough, but according to an online poll 3 out of 4 projects that call themselves Scrum fail to implement even the simplest parts. Read more...
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11.11.2008
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What is sprint planning about?
A major goal of sprint planning is to make a commitment to what is intended to be delivered by the end of the sprint. To do this, you... Read more...
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11.04.2008
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Got Agile?
VersionOne released The State of Agile Development report for 2008. A few days ago I wrote about barriers to Lean implementations, which is available here. Read more...
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10.27.2008
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My First Agile Project Part 9: Choosing A New Tool - VersionOne
As I'll talk about in this post, a combination of factors led us to start looking for a new backlog / taskboard tool and the one we've settled on is VersionOne. Read more...
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10.20.2008
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My First Agile Project Part 8: 9 Things We Disliked (and Liked) about ScrumWorks
For our last couple of sprints, we've been making due with a whiteboard and evaluating other tools. The one I like the best and we'll probably be going with is VersionOne, which I'll be talking about in more detail next week. Honestly VersionOne makes ScrumWorks look old-fashioned and barely functional. Read more...
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10.07.2008
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Task Tracking is an Agile Smell
We're looking at tools to help manage agile projects. This is a large, globally distributed enterprise, and that's not going to change, so I suppose some sort of expensive tool is a necessary evil. Read more...
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10.07.2008
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Doing Planning the Agile Way
So we're going to use Agile to manage the development of our secret new product. What does that actually entail? I'm not qualified to say for the general case, but I can show and tell how we've been doing it on our project. Read more...
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09.24.2008
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Focus : Has Agile Lost its Soul?
VersionOne has published raw results for the 3rd Annual State of the Agile Survey that was conducted in June and July 2008. Answers were received from 3061 participants in 80 countries. Participants working in agile projects are satisfied. Read more...
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09.23.2008
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VersionOne Launches V1: Agile Team
Earlier this year, VersionOne released its answer to Agile practitioners' software needs, V1: Agile Team. Agile is a project management methodology that places focus of the project on the team rather than on a manager. Read more...
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09.22.2008
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Trying Out Agile
For those of you who have never considered Agile before, I thought I'd jot down my thoughts about it, and point you in the direction of some reading material that I've found helpful. Any confirmed Agilists, or Anti-Agilists should feel free to chip in where I've got it right or wrong. Read more...
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09.19.2008
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Agile Atlanta on October 27th: Hyperproductive Distributed Scrum Teams
Please join us for a special combined meeting of the Agile Atlanta group and the Turner Agile User group. This is a great chance to hear directly from one of the original Agile thought leaders! Read more...
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09.17.2008
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UX and Agile, how do they mix?
So there has been some discussion lately about usability and agile, and whether the two work well together. Alan Cooper's keynote at Agile 2008 was a rally for the agile community at large to start folding in the UX role and taking advantage of it. Read more...
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09.11.2008
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Software Rhythm: Mid-Game
The Mid-Game is where the rubber hits the road. Your primary activities will be writing code and writing tests. I'll let you decide which order to write them in, as long as you write them both. Read more...
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09.09.2008
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VersionOne Integration with TFS
I had a chance to learn about VersionOne last year when I was at AgileCon 2007. Many of our customers are heavily engaged in Agile and are interested in using more specialized tools to plan and track iterations. Read more...
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09.09.2008
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Culture Change in a Waterfall World
I've found that trying to kick-start the culture change in our organization from the older Waterfall methodology to an Agile approach is quite challenging, although I suppose I always knew this would be the case. People are wary of change, so it's no surprise that it's an uphill battle for most to even consider these new ways of building software. Read more...
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09.08.2008
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Starting Back on Scrum
Right around the time of our first deadline, we decided to stop doing iterations and start just banging on whatever bugs we found. After we didn't go live we never went back on the iterations, which was a mistake. Today we had our first sprint planning in a few months. Read more...
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08.29.2008
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Third Annual State of Agile Survey Data Available
This survey was conducted and sponsored by VersionOne in June and July 2008. It received answers from 3061 participants in 80 countries; most of them (70%) were participating to the survey for the first time. The majority of the respondents were agile team leaders, coaches or consultants. Read more...
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08.20.2008
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Enterprise Agility-The Big Picture (7): Vision and Release Backlog
In agile, the traditional product requirements documents (PRD), system specification, software requirements specifications (SRS) and the like are typically eliminated. In their place, agile enterprises take a leaner approach better suited to the last-responsible-moment, delayed decision making and artifact-light development practices of the agile enterprise. Read more...
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08.15.2008
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How To Do a Scrum Project With Busy Consultants
Inspired by the great interview on DotNetRocks with Stephen Forte, who leads Scrum style agile projects with teams distributed around the globe, I decided: it must be possible to do agile project management with tools that are reachable from everywhere through the Internet. Read more...
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08.13.2008
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ScrumMaster Party 3Back and VersionOne
ScrumMaster Party 3Back and VersionOne VersionOne and 3Back offered their first co-hosted Certified ScrumMaster training event in San Mateo, California. This was the first time these two companies co-hosted a joint public event. The event was nothing short of spectacular and continued to show a proven track that these two agile oriented companies are leaders in their complementary market niches. Read more...
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07.05.2008
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Scrum Management Tool Poll Results: Moving Away From Cards?
The poll on Scrum / Agile tools usage was the most popular Scrum Breakfast poll to date - 100 responses, of which 63 were using a dedicated agile project management tool. A market leader seems to be emerging in the agile project management space. Read more...
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