Aside from being the high point of a visit by a number of McKinsey Management Consultants (who apparently stopped to take pictures – no joke), the Epic Board also got the nod of approval from Howard Averill, CFO of Time Inc.
The Epic Board – Get with the Programme! The Epic Board - Get with the Programme!
The Rise and Rise of Pointless Project Planning…! The Rise and Rise of Pointless Project Planning…!
Using ‘Spikes’ in Agile Software Development 
Top 10 Tips for Agile Software Development Testing! 
The Difference Between Waterfall, Iterative Waterfall, Scrum and Lean Software Development (In Pictures!) 
The Rise and Rise of Pointless Project Planning…!
Question: Why do people waste their time building project plans around totally unrealistic assumptions?
Using ‘Spikes’ in Agile Software Development
‘Spikes’ are time boxed periods of research and development used in Agile Software Development environments to research a concept and/or create a simple prototype.
Top 10 Tips for Agile Software Development Testing!
I just stumbled upon a great blog post by Ray Claridge (www.testertroubles.com) – Golden Rules for Software Testing.
Here’s a summary…
The Difference Between Waterfall, Iterative Waterfall, Scrum and Lean Software Development (In Pictures!)
Here’s a VERY simple overview of the main differences between Waterfall Development, Iterative Waterfall Development, Scrum/Agile Development and Lean.
Agile Project Management – Self-Organisation: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum Team
A ‘must watch’ Google Tech Talk by Jeff Sutherland, one of the founders of Scrum, about the ‘secret’ ways to achieve ‘hyper-productivity’ in an Agile Project Mangement environment.
So, You Want to be a Software Programming Rock Star?
A great Google Tech Talk by Joshua Kerievsky, where he discusses some of the challenges faced by programmers, common gotchas and how Industrial Logic can help you improve your Programming Skills.
What does ‘Done’ mean in Agile Software Development?
In Agile Software Development environments, we aim to deliver ‘[potentially] shippable code’ at the end of each iteration.
Interfaces and the Future of Ruby
An interesting Google Tech Talk by Yehuda Katz on the subject of Interfaces and the future of Ruby.
The Impact of Agile Software Development on Testing
A series of 30 second interviews from STARWEST 2008, discussing the effect that Agile Software Development has on testing and the testing process.
Agile is so last year – Introducing the Waterfall Manifesto…!
I just stumbled upon a site that really made me laugh – the Waterfall Manifesto.
Beyond Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development
A great Google Tech Talk talk by Dave Astels about the next step after Test Driven Development: Behaviour Driven Development (in Ruby).
You know you’re not using Scrum when… (5 Questions from Nokia)
Five questions asked by Nokia to determine whether or not their teams were following the guidelines of Scrum…
You know you’re not doing Iterative Development when…(5 Questions from Nokia)
Five questions asked by Nokia to determine whether or not their teams were ‘doing Iterative Development’.
Measuring Programmer Productivity – A scientific study
An interesting Google Tech Talk by Vikram Aggarwal and Viral Shah. In this talk, Vikram and Viral suggest ways to measure Programmer Productivity and share the results of various scientific studies conducted in this area.
Scaling Scrum & Distributed Teams – Scrum Tuning: Lessons Learned at Google
A fantastic Google Tech Talk by Jeff Sutherland, one of the founders of Scrum, where he introduces Scrum, Agile and offers a lot of insight and guidance on how to scale Scrum e.g. the Meta Scrum.
Introduction to Agile – “Let’s Talk Agile” Slideshow
A very succint and well assembled Introduction to Agile by Denise Caron.
This slideshow will be appreciated by those new to Agile and those responsible for ‘selling Agile’ alike.
How to Plan Software Development Projects with Distributed Teams
In this Google Tech Talk, Hubert Smits provides some very useful insight on how to plan Software Development projects with Distributed Agile Teams.
Sysomos ‘Inside Twitter’ Report 2009 – Twitter User Demographics and Usage Trends
This is a very interesting video summary of The 2009 Sysomos ‘Inside Twitter’ report on Social Media User Demographics and Usage Trends by Mel Aclaro (www.businesscasualblog.com).
If Twitter was 100 people – Twitter Demographics and Usage Trends
A very interesting summary of Twitter User Demographics and Usage Trends by by David McCandless (http://www.InformationIsBeautiful.net).
