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Agile in a COBOL World

Can Agile work for mainframe projects? A recent coaching client is a small company that wanted to transition their entire development department to Agile. It was an easy sell to the applications people, harder to the maintenance people (until I

Roger December 3, 2009April 27, 2012 Coding, Scrum, Teams No Comments Read more

Implementing the Definition of Done

In my early Agile days, we did not have a formal Definition of Done. We went by feel. If we were happy with the implementation from a design standpoint, if the story did what the Product Owner asked for, if

Roger September 14, 2009 Coaching, Definition of Done, Scrum, Teams No Comments Read more

Harmony by Song 4

I spent this week at Agile 2009 in Chicago. On the third night, after dinner with friends, I wandered overĀ to the Music stage. There was a fellow playing one of the community guitars. I picked up anotherĀ and we tried a

Roger August 28, 2009August 28, 2009 Planning, Teams No Comments Read more

Coalescence of Swirling Chaos

I detect a pattern of group behavior. No doubt it is already described elsewhere and has a fancy name. Self-organization, perhaps. The pattern first revealed itself to me at Agile2008 in a workshop on release planning. It came at that

Roger September 12, 2008May 25, 2009 Teams 2 Comments Read more

Collaborative Endeavors

Collaboration is fundamental to successful agile projects. A team of people working together toward a shared goal will create a different product than a group of individuals working alone on parallel assignments to be integrated later. Collaboration supplies automatic load

Roger August 19, 2008May 25, 2009 Coaching, Teams, Training No Comments Read more

Black Holes and the Buddy System

I recently fell into a black hole. I was creating a demonstration for Cruise Control. When I got to the part about running FitNesse tests via ant, I got all wrapped around the axle with java classpaths. I don’t know

Roger April 28, 2008May 25, 2009 Coding, Teams No Comments Read more
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