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Methods & Tools - January 2019
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How to Choose Quality Candidates or Consultants for Your Large Company Agile Initiative We created this set of questions to help corporate managers select Agile-experienced consultants and candidate employees for project work. Assembling a team of qualified Agile people is one thing, but the fact that some Agile practices and principles mean different things to different people makes it even harder to succeed in staffing your initiatives. A consultant or potential employee who has great Agile experience in small product companies may be exactly the wrong type of person to help you inside a large corporation. An Agile evangelist from a small product company may actually be horrified by some of the compromises that are absolutely necessary in your large company environment. We developed this questionnaire to make those distinctions. Read more...


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Before agile many companies and teams considered a three month release cycle as aggressive, an annual release was more common. Agile started to ask teams to make fortnightly releases, or at the very least be able to release every two weeks. Being releasable was more important than actual releasing because staying at a releasable standard forced teams to keep a high technical standard and thus gave options to the business customers.

The best digital teams have now accelerated far beyond every two week. The Guardian newspaper in London commonly releases several thousand times a week and Amazon.com releases on average every 11 seconds.

A release every two weeks still looks like an impossible challenge to an average team – typically one working inside some large corporation. But for the best teams a two week gap between releases looks like an eternity.

The link between a project end date and a software release is well an truly broken. The parameters of date, scope and quality at the heart of the project model are managed completely differently.

Source: "Continuous Digital - An agile alternative to projects", Allan Kelly, https://leanpub.com/cdigital/


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Text: Chaos Engineering: the history, principles, and practice

Text: The Two Traits of the Best Problem-Solving Teams

Text: Mocks or the real thing? Tips for better unit testing

Text: Sprints, marathons and root canals

Text: Why your programmers just want to code

Text: Applying the Prime Directive beyond the retrospective

Text: The 90% agreement rule

Text: Spreading Tribal Knowledge in Scrum Teams with History Lines

Video: Enterprise Architecture = Architecting the Enterprise?

Video: Docker Tips and Tricks for Java Developers

Video: Pragmatic Guide to Functional Geekery

Video: Doing Agile Without Anyone Realizing It

Video: Staying Sane While Testing the Hard Stuff

Video: Agile Team Building Mechanics

Tools: GanttProject is a free project scheduling and management app for Windows, OSX and Linux. GanttProject is written in Java and features Gantt chart, resource management, calendaring, import/export (MS Project, HTML, PDF, spreadsheets).

Tools: Modelio is an open source modeling environment supporting the main standards: UML, BPMN, MDA, SysML, etc. Modelio delivers a broad-focused range of standards-based functionalities for software developers, analysts, designers, business architects and system architects.


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