Improving Agile Retrospectives: Helping Teams Become More Efficient

…by providing additional, more agile-friendly information. If burndown charts are suitable to show, do so. Or perhaps you want to include a report showing the number of times the build server kicked off continuously integrated builds and the thousands (or perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands) of test runs that…

The increased popularity of agile software development processes over the years since the signing of the Agile Manifesto has led to increased popularity in iterative development, whether those teams go so far as being agile or not. A key consideration in adopting an iterative process is selecting how long your…

…beginning of a an agile project, the team establishes a plan that says something like, “Over the next four months (comprising eight two-week iterations), we will complete approximately 240 story points of work.” At the end of each iteration, an agile team assesses its position. However, there are many forces…

…has been written about agile processes is intended for programmers and project managers. Unfortunately, very little information is available to help new product owners or customers identify the right thing to build or learn how to juggle competing priorities. As a product owner, agile product manager, or member of a…

With so many agile processes available, it can be hard to tell what is right for you. When the leading agile processes vary from the heavy weight to the extremely lightweight, how do you choose? No matter your role in the organization, if you’re trying to choose the next development…

…is often cited by agile practitioners has always surprised me. The cycle seems incongruous with agile and its antipathy toward upfront planning, upfront design, and the like. The book Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future by by Leonard Schlesinger and Charles Kiefer with Paul Brown is about…

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…1 also describes how agile/Scrum address these problems. Part 2 is probably the best overall introduction to Scrum anywhere. I now even recommend this Part (100 pages) to my non-game development clients. Part 3 goes deeper into many of the specific challenges facing game projects—planning, creating cross-functional teams from such…

Agile Game Development with Scrum

Agile Game Development: Build, Play, Repeat

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Agile processes replace some of the upfront planning of a traditional process with a just-in-time approach in which plans are progressively refined. For the often-used example of a team working in isolation, progressive refinement usually takes the form of creating a high-level release plan and then planning each iteration as…

…planning works on an agile project, where just-in-time and just-enough are the rule of the day. And you aren’t quite sure how to apply user stories and story points from the very start of a project up through delivery. Take a look at these highly interactive sessions from agile expert…