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Delivering Continuous Value: Lessons Learned About Software Delivery In Our First 20 Years

Gorilla Logic

What We’ve Learned About Agile. We eat, sleep, and breathe Agile because we know from experience that it increases quality, reduces rework, speeds delivery, and enables teams to deliver continuous value to the business. At the heart of our Agile practice is always the customer. Pedro Araya, Agile Practice Lead. “As

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in 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. Investing in Agility. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They’re the secret to Agile success.

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The Infinite Loop Part I: The Problem

Wolk Software Engineering

The Agile Manifesto (2001) # After many years of failed waterfall software projects, 17 renowned software developers met at a resort in Snowbird, Utah, to discuss lightweight development methods. Together they published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. The Agile Manifesto is not a methodology.

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Choosing a Scrum Sprint Length – Shorter Beats Longer

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

How long should a Scrum Sprint be? A Scrum Sprint is a short period of time when the Scrum Team works, but there is no hard rule as to how long that should be – in this post, we cover the pros and cons of shorter and longer Sprints and how you can discover what works best for you. This leads to the dark side and Scrum Theatre.

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Meet the Coach: Magnus Kollberg

Agile42

For our series of interviews, we sat down with Magnus Kollberg, a Mid Sweden University graduate who has recently joined the agile42 Sweden team as an Agile coach. What was your path leading you to Agility and to agile42? The agile world is growing and evolving, do you see a clear direction for future years?

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Cargo Cult Agile. Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated!

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Autonomy Now

The Agile Manager

Consider a distributed Agile program consisting of multiple teams based in different countries around the world. In practice, any single team in a large program - even an Agile team - can function internally in a tightly coupled manner even though it is loosely coupled to other teams in the same program of work.