Tag Archive: agile development

Apr 04

When is a story too big?

by Joseph Flahiff

I hear it all the time. “There is no way to break this story down any smaller.” Believe me there is always a way. Find it. Or your velocity will be all messed up! and worse. Watch this video to learn how Testing suffers from big stories

Mar 03

The Agile Manifesto 10 Years later – Andy Hunt & Joseph Flahiff

by Joseph Flahiff

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Andy Hunt was one of the original signers of the Agile Manifesto in 2001.  I had a great time interviewing Andy Hunt (Andrew Hunt) for this podcast. It is great to find a kindred spirit. I hope you enjoy listening to /\ndy talk about his pragmatic approach to software development. Learn more about Andy at …

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Feb 21

Implementing Lean – a discussion with Jeffery Liker

by Joseph Flahiff

Jeffery Liker is the author of 9 books including the international best seller “The Toyota Way”. In this podcast Joseph discusses with Jeff the “smells” of successful and unsuccessful lean implementations. Here are links to Amazon [affiliate links] about the books mentioned in this podcast.

Feb 18

The Agile Manifesto 10 Years later – Arie van Bennekum

by Joseph Flahiff

Arie van Bennekum was one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.  He is an active contributor to the agile community, active in the DSDM Consortium, an author and well known speaker.  Arie comes to us from the Netherlands.

Feb 14

The Agile Manifesto 10 years later – Ward Cunningham

by Joseph Flahiff

The Agile Manifesto was written 10 years ago. Ward Cunningham was one of the original signatories. In this interview with him I discuss the decade that has passed, where the manifesto has taken us and what he might change if he were doing it all over again.

Feb 08

Agile for COTS – Discussion with Scott Ambler

by Joseph Flahiff

Agile thought leader Scott Ambler discusses with Joseph Flahiff how you use Agile to more effectively implement Commercial off the shelf (COTS). COTS projects are often not considered a candidate for Agile but why not? I decided to go to the big dog in the park, IBM, and talk about how you can save literally …

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Feb 01

Mixing the Agile methodology and the Waterfall methodology – a really short introduction

by Joseph Flahiff

How do you mix agile and waterfall. in this video Joseph tells you about how to use agile as a delivery model baked into a waterfall shell.

Jan 26

Agile Project Management – ‘Sprint Theme’

by Joseph Flahiff

Sprint themes are not core to any agile methodology but they can be a useful addition to focus the energy of your team.

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