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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.

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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.

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Sprint Planning: Hours or Story Points (?) – that is the question!

There is a lot of debate about whether to estimate sprint requirements in hours or to leave them in Story Points. Personally, I see pros and cons of both approaches but would use Story Points over hours where/whenever possible.

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The Product Manager – Role and Responsibilities

The Product Manager represents the Product Owner and the End-User/Customer – they are responsible for defining and scheduling the delivery of high quality output in line with business requirements and priorities.

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How Agile Are You? (The Survey!)

How Agile Are You? A question originally posed by Nokia, shortly followed by Kelly Waters of All About Agile. This post contains a downloadable template you can use to measure yourself against a list of 42 criteria. See how you measure up!

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The Epic Board – Get with the Programme!

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.

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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?

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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.

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Check out the NEW Agile101 iPhone site!

I’m pleased to announce the Agile101 iPhone site is now live!

This means you can browse all of the latest Agile Project Management articles, tips, videos and reviews whilst on-the-go.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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Interfaces and the Future of Ruby

An interesting Google Tech Talk by Yehuda Katz on the subject of Interfaces and the future of Ruby.

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