Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders

…choose? No matter your role in the organization, if you’re trying to choose the next development method for your business, what you need to know is what these processes entail once you get past the jargon. You need to understand the benefits and drawbacks of each so that you can…

…heard about agile software development projects but aren’t sure if they allow for the detailed planning and estimation your business requires. You might also worry if your team provides the estimates that management wants, the numbers might come back to haunt you. Whether you are a manager, programmer, tester, or…

…become a more agile development organization, but you aren’t sure how to begin. You’ve heard of successful, non-agile transitions where a strong, visionary leader plants a stake in the ground and says, “Let's take our organization there.” You might have also been a part of change efforts that started with…

…part of a software development team whose job is to provide value to the organization through the development of new (and enhancement of existing) applications. One of the best DBAs I ever worked with viewed himself as a “Data Valet.” He said his job was to make sure the data…

…likely heard of agile development processes like Scrum and XP. You might have even begun to implement them at the team level in your organization. What you are beginning to realize, however, is while starting an agile transition is easy, scaling agile practices across an organization is much harder. You…

…is called a formal role on Scrum teams (pp. xxii-xxiii) The iteration backlog “shows all the functionality that the team will complete during the current iteration.” (p. 106) This means the iteration backlog is the subset of product backlog items selected for the iteration, not the tasks (or “sprint backlog…