Tag Archives: Agile

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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SBR: Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
If you are running agile retrospectives you need to read this book. If you are not running retrospectives what are you waiting for?
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Sunday Review: Manage IT! by Johanna Rothman

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Take Away: A real book about real project management. Johanna is seasoned veteran in the industry and it shows by the great content here.

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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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1% Improvement Over Time Is Significant

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Who wants to be 1% better? Not very many people.
Who wants to be 50% better? Significantly more people.
Who wishes they could be perfect? Most people.
I had heard the quotes “Perfection not a destination, it is a journey that never ends” [...]

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Sunday Book Review: User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.

Take Away: Best book on the market about writing user stories. Mike makes agile easy [...]

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Dysfunctions of (Agile) Teams

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Over the holiday break I read Patrick Lencioni‘s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable“. The premise is that each dysfunction builds upon the dysfunction before it. Much like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Below is an illustration of [...]