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Agile Trends Switzerland 2013
2016-10-12 in 2016
What are the main hurdles to introducing agile approaches in Swiss companies? Introducing agile company-wide is a cultural change process. Such a change takes time and sometimes hurts. Without the commitment of senior management, the initiative will …
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Agile Trends Switzerland 2012
2016-09-07 in 2016
What are the main hurdles to introducing agile approaches in Swiss companies? Introducing agile company-wide is a cultural change process. Such a change takes time and sometimes hurts. Without the commitment of senior management, the initiative will …
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Git Branches for the Impatient
2016-07-21 in 2016
You are working in a small mostly collocated development team. Sometimes a team member works from a remote location. You have one git repository accessible to all team members. This repository is used to share source code and documentation …
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The Version of the Scrum Guide 2011
2016-06-22 in 2016
The new version of the Scrum Guide written by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland has been available since July 2011. You should regularly read the Scrum guide to reflect how your teams are applying agile principles and ideas. You should also consult …
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Scrum Master is a full-time Role
2016-05-19 in 2016
I am very happy we discuss in depth the role, responsibilities and activities of a good Scrum Master. I fully agree with Scrum advocates that Scrum Master is a dedicated full-time job. I am also convinced a Scrum Master can support multiple …
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Books for Persons interested in Agile Approaches
2016-04-21 in 2016
I am often told that it is difficult to use Agile/Scrum approaches for brown field projects or for big projects or for distributed projects or for in other situations. Interestingly, these people also state that the same problems exist with …
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PMI-ACP Certification
2016-03-18 in 2016
Unknown reference: lean-agile-software-develpment I learnt quite a few new acronyms and techniques when studying for the PMI-ACP certification program. In this post, I collected these acronyms, some definition and the bibliography you should know …
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Why I use a MacBookPro and OS X
2016-03-16 in 2016
I loved Linux as a young developer. I compiled new kernels during evening sessions. I worked hard to install and configure drivers to support the hardware I had bought. I explored forums and talked with technical support specialists to activate …
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Do Agile Methods - Scrum - Motivate your Team?
2016-02-24 in 2016
Decision makers and waterfall aficionados loudly ask if agile approaches are worth the hype. Does the approach really promote team work? Well, my current experience is that the answer is a sounding YES. Developers love to develop software products …
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Minimizing Undone Work when Working with Regulatory Departments
2016-01-21 in 2016
The Scrum and agile mantra is to have a ready-to-ship product each time a sprint is completed. You must avoid any incomplete activities at any price. Incomplete activities are also called Undone Work. They are technical debts in your software, …