Nine Questions for a Good Scrum Team Structure
Published August 24th, 2010 Under Quotes | Leave a Comment
In his book “Succeeding with Agile”, Mike Cohn present nine questions that you should ask for a current or proposed team. Questions should be asked iteratively… until you answer “yes” to each. Here are the questions:
* Does the structure accentuate the strengths, shore up the weaknesses, and support the motivations of the team members?
* Does the structure minimize the number of people required to be on two teams (and avoid having anyone on three)?
* Does the structure maximize the amount of time that teams will remain together?
* Are component teams used only in limited and easily justifiable cases?
* Will you be able to feed most teams with two pizzas?
* Does the structure minimize the number of communication paths between teams?
* Does the structure encourage teams to communicate who wouldn’t otherwise do so?
* Does the design support a clear understanding of accountability?
* Did team members have input into the design of the team?
Besides the cultural bias (in Italy, one pizza will usually feed one person but it might be different in the USA…), you could use these questions for every project that you are currently running or plan to run.
Reference: “Succeeding with Agile”, Mike Cohn, Addison-Wesley, 262 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-57936-2
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September Software Development Conferences
Published August 24th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in September and that have media partnerships with Methods & Tools:
* Mobile Application Stores, September 7 2010, Zurich, Switerland
* iqnite 2010 Schweiz, September 21 2010, Zurich, Switzerland
* Lean & Kanban 2010 Europe, September 23-24 2010, Antwerp, Belgium
* Software Testing Analysis & Review Conference, September 26—October 1 2010, San Diego, USA
* iPhone/iPad DevCon, September 27-29 2010, San Diego, USA
* iqnite Nordic, September 29-30 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
* iqnite United Kingdom, October 4 2010, London, UK
* Agile Eastern Europe, October 8-9, Kyiv, Ukraine
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More than 2000 Tools Listed on SoftDevTools.com
Published August 23rd, 2010 Under News | Leave a Comment
Our software development tools directory has now categorized more than 2000 tools. From project management and unit testing tools to NoSQL databases, you can find tools used in every software development activity, as the 10′000 monthly visitors do, searching by programming language, running platforms or another of our classification criteria.
If you are the committer of an open source project or the marketing manager of a commercial tool, do not hesitate to add your tool. It is free and you will be able to post press releases to communicate about new versions.
Linkopedia August 2010
Published August 19th, 2010 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Blog: Categorizing the Cloud …
Blog: Patterns and Practices for Improving Personal Productivity, Time Management, and Effectiveness
Blog: Earned Value v. Earned Schedule
Blog: A List of Coding Standard Websites
Humour: My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means.
Article: jQuery Test-Driven Development
Article: Are We Headed to Abilene?
Tool: Flerry is a Flex-Java bridge for Adobe AIR 2.0
Tool: Coverlipse is an Eclipse plugin that visualizes the code coverage of JUnit Tests
Video: How to Cope with Communication Problems in an Agile Project?
Video: Continuous Integration, Pipelines and Deployment
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Reflections on Management
Published August 17th, 2010 Under Books | Leave a Comment
This book is composed of papers previously written by Watts Humphrey. The people and management aspects of software development are often neglected in books and this one is a good source to start thinking about them… and improving our practice. The book is structured in four parts: managing your projects, managing your teams, managing your boss and managing yourself. In each part, it presents both general principles and real life examples or stories taken from Watts Humphrey career. This makes the book very easy to read as we can connect the theory to situations that we have met in our professional life.
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Reference: “Reflections on Management – How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself”, Watts S. Humphrey and William R. Thomas Addison-Wesley, 260 pages, IBSN 978-0-321-71153-3
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