links for 2006-11-22

Sean Dickinson: Project Management: the 14 club rule
Interesting post, particularly based on a couple of conversations that I have had recently.
(tags: agile xp scrum prince2 projectmanagement)

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links for 2006-11-21

iTorrent
Finally, something that provides bittorent suport for iTunes
(tags: podcast itunes bittorrent)

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War Time Correspondence

I had an interesting conversation with somebody on Wednesday who I had highlighted my blog to. He gave me some good feedback which was encouraging.
He mentioned that my posts came across as though they weren’t really aimed at anyone which I accepted, I’ve said to a couple of people now that I see this blog [...]

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The 3 Musketeers

I’ve just seen this very interesting chapter on 37 Signals which is part of a book that has been written titled “Getting Real, Discover the smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web based application.”, the entire book can be read online, for free here, you can also buy a pdf version here and [...]

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links for 2006-11-16

Outcomes over Features – the fifth agile value?
Really interesting post focussing on the advantages of keeping the objectives of the project in mind as opposed simply focussing on the feature list.
(tags: agile)

Scattered Atoms: Henrik Kniberg’s “SCRUM & XP from the trenches”
Whilst I’ve not read it yet this document promises to be a really useful resource
(tags: [...]

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links for 2006-11-15

namics Weblog: Project Management: A Dismal Science?
Really liked the analogy used in this article to describe how SCRUM differs to normal Project Management approach and also how the Product Owner role fits in
(tags: agile scrum productowner)

Mage’s Journal – Bloody software engineering fads
Resistant to change? Never…
(tags: agile scrum scrumadoption)

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links for 2006-11-14

Episode 022 – Secrets of Agile Teamwork at Controlling Chaos
Interview with Esther Derby who wrote Behind Closed Doors, Secrets of Great Management book speaking about Agile Teamwork
(tags: agile agileadoption podcast)

Ruminations » Agile? Or Mini-Waterfall?
I had an interesting discussion with a colleague earlier in which I suggested that the way I saw things working in a [...]

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links for 2006-11-11

The Random Musings » Blog Archive » Add Some Empirical, Add Some Transparency, Uphold the Quality . . . What Do You Have?
Interesting observation relating to Waterfall methodology
(tags: agile waterfall scrum)

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links for 2006-11-09

The Geek Zone : Using Scrum in a Fixed Duration/Scope Project
Summary on some of the difficulties faced when adopting Scrum
(tags: scrumadoption scrum agile)

Keeping the tangents documented: Tech Ed – Agile Methodology
Great article that defines Agile Development and which on the most part I agree with. It’s nice to see it summised in to the Agile [...]

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Analyse this

I was impressed today when, having been away from the team for some time, I came back to the office where we’re currently located and found them deep in conversation around a whiteboard. Nothing noteable about that you say? Agreed. What I found impressive was that they had identified between themselves that they needed to [...]

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