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Feb 10

Just 3 Things

As I work on Implementing Agile Values and Principles, the follow-up book to Understanding Agile Values and Principles (UAVP) (https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agile-values-principles/), besides offering material that will not end up being in the book, I want to post some brief ideas that will be included, and expanded upon, in the book. …

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Jan 18

Driving a Car, Not Aiming a Bullet — the Driving Analogy

As I work on Implementing Agile Values and Principles, the follow-up book to Understanding Agile Values and Principles (UAVP) (https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agile-values-principles/), I have been editing out material that, while of some interest, does not really advance the point of this new book. I’ve decided to post this material, bit by bit…

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Jan 18

What’s a Methodology For?

As I work on Implementing Agile Values and Principles, the follow-up book to Understanding Agile Values and Principles (UAVP) (https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agile-values-principles/), I have been editing out material that, while of some interest, does not really advance the point of this new book. I’ve decided to post this material, bit by bit…

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Jan 18

“Agile” and “agile”

“Agile” and “agile” As I work on Implementing Agile Values and Principles, the follow-up book to Understanding Agile Values and Principles (UAVP) (https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agile-values-principles/), I have been editing out material that, while of some interest, does not really advance the point of this new book. I’ve decided to post this material, bit by bit…

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Jan 18

Faster, Cheaper, Better

As I work on Implementing Agile Values and Principles, the follow-up book to Understanding Agile Values and Principles (UAVP) (https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agile-values-principles/), I have been editing out material that, while of some interest, does not really advance the point of this new book. I’ve decided to post this material, bit by bit…

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Nov 23, 2022

Perhaps Frameworks Aren’t the Best (Initial) Path to Agility?

Perhaps Frameworks Aren’t the Best (Initial) Path to Agility? A few years ago, I wrote a book called Understanding Agile Values and Principles (https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/agile-values-principles/). I did this because years of training and coaching people and organizations suggested to me that many organizations start their path to Agility with a framework…

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Apr 22, 2022

What Do I Need to Do to Fix Our Process?

I Have Three Words for You In my years coaching and training teams and organizations I have most often been brought in for the former after the organization has been “doing Agile” for a while and then feels they need some help since things haven’t been going as they hoped. …

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Mar 11, 2022

Software Engineering Thoughts

[A very short post today. May be a few days before I organize some older ideas for future posts.] I ran across these while looking at some older article ideas. I’ve listed the sources for most of them, but did not have them for the first two. The Product Owner…

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Mar 10, 2022

Links to all the Conference Posts

Here is a list of links to all the conference notes I have posted over the last few weeks: Agile Development Conference 2004 Notes Agile 2005 Conference Notes Agile 2007 Conference Notes Agile 2008 Conference Notes Agile 2009 Conference Notes Agile 2010 Conference Notes Agile 2014 Conference Notes Agile 2016…

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Mar 10, 2022

Texas Symposium on Software Engineering (2004) Notes

This was the first TSSE and was sponsored largely by the University of Texas at Austin’s Computer Science and Lifelong Engineering programs. The conference chair was Herb Krasner who started the Software Quality Institute at UT (http://sqi.utexas.edu). In his opening remarks, he stated that TSSE will focus on software system…

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