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Apple iPad: UK phone operators vie for deals

Steve Jobs has fired the starting pistol in the race to bring the iPad to the UK, with several mobile phone operators and retailer Carphone Warehouse interested in selling Apple’s new tablet computer to consumers this side of the Atlantic.

28Jan2010 | taraleewhitaker | 0 comments | Continued
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Scrum on Demand – Getting Started with Scrum

* How do I convince the team to use Scrum?
* How long should our sprints be?
* How should we handle bugs?
* What if our estimates are not accurate?
* How do we handle items with dependencies across sprints?
* What tool should we use to track everything?
* How do I get my team trained on Scrum?

12Oct2009 | taraleewhitaker | 3 comments | Continued
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The Rise and Rise of Pointless Project Planning…!

Question: Why do people waste their time building project plans around totally unrealistic assumptions?

2Oct2009 | taraleewhitaker | 4 comments | Continued
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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.

29Sep2009 | taraleewhitaker | 2 comments | Continued
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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.

8Sep2009 | taraleewhitaker | 21 comments | Continued
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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.

7Sep2009 | taraleewhitaker | 1 comment | Continued
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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.

4Sep2009 | taraleewhitaker | 4 comments | Continued
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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…

1Sep2009 | taraleewhitaker | 1 comment | Continued
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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’.

1Sep2009 | taraleewhitaker | 1 comment | Continued
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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.

1Sep2009 | taraleewhitaker | 2 comments | Continued
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