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Archive for January, 2009

Lean and Agile, Part 2

Posted by Charlie Rudd on Saturday, January 31st, 2009

A more pragmatic approach to discussing the relationship between Lean and Agile is to ask when one approach might be better suited than the other to solve a particular kind of problem.

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Lean and Agile

Posted by Charlie Rudd on Friday, January 30th, 2009

The relationship between Lean and Agile within the Agile community is controversial. This is for the most part not only a false controversy but a bad way to frame the discussion.

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Just Do It!

Posted by Skip Angel on Friday, January 30th, 2009

Scrum is an empirical process. This means that the Scrum team will try many experiments during each sprint, and will form hypotheses during their sprint retrospective. The team will do some great things, and continue to improve upon them. It will also make many mistakes, and will learn from them by trying more experiments. As long as the team continues to take action by trying new things and learning from those attempts, it will get better

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Maven: the Coolest Build Tool Ever!

Posted by Lance Kind on Friday, January 30th, 2009

I’ve been through the grinder on build tools: typing in VIC-20 BASIC, building from the command line, building from .sh scripts, building from make, building from xmake, building from IDEs, building from nant. It’s been a glorious twenty-eight years of software development (including grade school years of software development).

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Agile’s PR problem: People who don’t do it right

Posted by Lance Kind on Friday, January 30th, 2009

Agile is going to have a PR problem.

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