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AoAD2 Chapter: Ownership (introduction)

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Agile teams own their work. This is due to a fundamental Agile principle: the people who are doing the work are the ones who best understand what needs to be done. This idea was found in every Agile process.

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Story Points and Planning Poker: How to Make Estimates in Scrum and Agile

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll talk about the concept of story points in Agile development , figure out how to calculate them, and explain what poker has to do with that. Later, they were popularized by Mike Cohn and his book Agile Estimating and Planning published back in 2005. How to calculate story points in Agile?

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AoAD2 Chapter 3: How to Be Agile

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. How to Be Agile. What does it mean to “be Agile?”. As we’ve seen in the previous chapters, Agile is a philosophy: a way of thinking about software development. Practicing Agile. Second Edition cover.

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Subsumption Architecture: How iRobot Enabled Scrum

scruminc

Scrum booted up just like the robot. It has always interested me to see people trying to tweak Scrum without understanding the subsumption architecture. I remember a VP of Engineering in Silicon Valley who told me around the time of the Agile Manifesto meeting, maybe before. They are not agile enough.

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Product definition and roadmapping: from ideas to plans to products

Apiumhub

User story mapping was first introduced by Jeff Patton in 2005 (8). The development team along with the scrum master provides an initial estimation of each user story. Product Leader – Not (only) agile. Online] 01 2005. Scrum for Product owners by Goskills. Some Agile retrospective ideas. User Story Mapping.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Scaling Agility

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Scaling Agility. Although this book is focused on individual Agile teams, many organizations have more than one development team, and they’re often dependent on each other to finish their work. It never works.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). Django is even older (created in 2005), but it’s still widely used—and with an 8% increase this year, it’s not going away.

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