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Agile Trends – Minus the Hype
Surprise, surprises … Agile has never appeared in Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. So, the task of separating the hype from reality becomes simpler. The reality, Scott Ambler says, is that...
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Agile development and Enterprise Architecture practice – Can they coexist
Your reaction to the title is probably one of the following: Why should it be a challenge? Co-existence would be impossible. There will be difficulties but it can be done. Why should this be a...
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Is it Blasphemous to Criticize Agile?
This is how I was planning to start my post … “…believe me … I do think agile works … in most … well if not in most cases then in many cases. That by implication means it is not a silver bullet for all...
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Agile practices now have research support
Adam Smith was wrong. Well … he was not wrong in his conclusion but he was partially wrong in his basic assumption that human always pursue their self-interest. Through the work of many scientists, we...
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Scaling Agile – Is it possible without violating Agile Manifesto?
In short the answer is a big NO. Agile@Scale ≠ Agile@Manifesto Why do I say that Agile@Manifesto cannot be scaled? Apart from what is explicitly stated in the manifesto, there is an unstated belief...
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Agile Projects are more Successful – Survey Result
Survey conducted by Scott Ambler has consistently (2008, 2010 & 2011) shown that Agile and Iterative Projects have been more successful. Apart from the fact that Agile has been consistently been...
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How to Scale Agile?
Scaling agile is not simple. The complexity increases not in proportion to the size of the team but at the square of the size of the team. That means a 20 member team project will be 4 times as complex...
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Agile and Offshoring – the twain shall meet
There is enough evidence that Agile works … in most cases much better than waterfall. Even when you are working in an enterprise scale, distributed, multi-vendor and strong regulatory environment –...
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MIT Research Finding Corroborates Agile Principles
We, the agile practitioner had known it all along. Teams where all members participate equally, collaborate with each other and self-organize produces better software! Authors of the agile manifesto...
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4 Tests to determine if you are following Agile development
Am I the only person who thinks that we need a clear, well understood and unambiguous determine if the development process that you are following can be classified as Agile development process? Do you...
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Is Agile Elitist?
Best way to do software development is to get hold of master programmers. Get them to form a self organizing team and do the development in short increments. That is agile. What happens if you cannot...
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