Category Archives: Agile

Sunday Book Review : Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Derek Neighbors

Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (Addison-Wesley Signature Series by Lyssa Adkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
What an eye opening book for anyone that has been doing agile software development and is [...]

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There is No Spoon: When Agile Becomes One with the World of Work

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Derek Neighbors

I am excited to be traveling to Salt Lake City this Summer to speak at Agile 2011.  My talk was accepted for the New Horizons & New Voices stage.  It is on Wednesday August 10th at 11:00am.
There is No Spoon: [...]

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Challenging Agile Leadership

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Derek Neighbors

I believe that the majority of the current agile leadership believes that the formula is set and that we are in the adoption/incremental improvement stage.  This seems counter to the original writings of said leadership… I have questions

Continuous deployment has [...]

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Agile 2011 Reuniting Manifesto Signatories

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Derek Neighbors

I am attending the Agile Conference of the decade to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 8-12, close to Snowbird where the Manifesto was written and Agile Alliance was formed in 2001.  An historic reunion of Manifesto signatories will [...]

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Desert Code Camp 2011.1

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Derek Neighbors

Saturday April 2nd @ Chandler-Gilbert Community College Pecos Campus
Desert Code Camp has opened it’s call for suggestions.  This is a great FREE event that brings together technologists of all kinds together at a single location to learn (while feeding them [...]

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Six Key Things For Managing Agile Teams

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

At Integrum we regularly retrospect on our work.  A recent retrospective unearthed “What do you expect from the management team”.  From the data I collected  six key things that an agile team requires from their management team.

1. Organization
The team needs [...]

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You Can’t Do Collaboration Without Being a Collaborator

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

In various software development circles I hear the phrase “You can’t do Agile, you have to be Agile”.  This makes sense to me so never thought much about it.  However, when asked about Gangplank and describing it we choose say [...]

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Retrospective Test Idea

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have been wanting to share retrospective data lately in the hopes others would share their data back.  This is a quick experiment.  If people find it useful please comment.  I will then execute part two of the exercise.
Retrospective #29232
Background:
The [...]

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Sunday Review: Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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Sunday Review: Practices of an Agile Develoeper by Andy Hunt

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]

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