HotHousing in Agile

The term originally came out of England at British Telcom as a way to plan out the backlog for a given product. The entire project team and several different disciplines come together with business partners to creatively solve problems and launch into a 90-day development cycle.

Interessante...

Mais neste artigo:
http://blogs.captechconsulting.com/blog/margaret-thomas/hothousing-new-concept-or-new-word?goback=%2Egde_81065_member_241843457

AGILE - Reuniões de retrospective

Muitas vezes entramos em debates intermináveis nas reuniões de retrospectiva, no final do Sprint, sobre temas que não são importantes para a equipa.
Embora seja fundamental haver abertura para as pessoas falarem do que acham importante, do que pode ser melhorado, até da sua visão sobre as questões abordadas, não é útil perder de vista o objectivo da reunião, que é identificar o que correu bem e reforçá-lo, e identificar o que correu mal e melhorá-lo.
E nao nos perdermos em discussoes subjectivas sobre se a opinião do outro é mais certa ou errada do que a minha.
É importante identificar pontos de melhoria e pensar em acções concretas e práticas para as mitigar.

Deixo uma frase interessante e bastante ilustrativa :)
Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Five, because deciding is different than doing.” Decisions are worthless … unless you turn them into commitments.

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130520005409-36052017-are-you-making-this-mistake-at-the-end-of-your-meetings?goback=%2Egde_81065_member_242848818

AGILE - Partir User Stories

Pequena dica para partir User Stories demasiado grandes, num Road Map elucidativo e ilustrativo :)

http://rslawrence.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Story-Splitting-Flowchart.pdf

Mais alguns artigos sore como partir User Stories:
http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2011/05/01/splitting-user-stories/
http://www.richardlawrence.info/2009/10/28/patterns-for-splitting-user-stories/
http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/04/how-to-split-user-stories

Agile, Scrum - A Christmas Retrospective :))))

‘Twas the night before Christmas
And Santa was busy
Trying to understand
Why things got so crazy

But the plan was perfect
Created by experts
But the elves on the floor
Knew so much more

What if they’d Scrumed it
Santa as P.O.
Maybe a burndown
And of course a retro

Sprint 0 in March
And a start in April
A review every month
And see if we’re able

But Agile it wasn’t
And waterfall it was
Santa found out too late
That he wouldn’t make the date

Next Christmas will be different
It will be in December
And we won’t have to wait
For our toys in September

Merry Christmas! ;)

Source: don't remember :S but comes from a LinkedIn Group...

Scrum Poker (ou Poker Planning)

Artigo bastante elucidativo, de uma forma divertida :), sobre Poker Planning, metodologia proposta por Mike Cohn, para calcular estimativas para a duração das stories.

http://www.crisp.se/planningpoker

Have fun :o)

What Do Actors and Programmers Have in Common?

Artigo interessante sobre metodologias (estrategias?) partilhadas por estes dois grupos, aparentemente tão distintos :)

[…]
So, what do actors and programmers have in common?
Well, some amazingly fundamental things as it turns out:

* Iterative work
* Collaboration
* Innovation

Theatre work and product development both thrive on iteration and collaboration. Lee described this in terms of rehearsal and the emergent look of a play leading up to and even after opening night. Rob affirmed the value of a collaborative and iterative approach in product development[…]

Mais aqui: http://www.rallydev.com/agileblog/2009/11/what-do-actors-and-programmers-have-in-common/

How to implement Scrum in 10 easy steps :)

Artigo que propõe uma metodologia para aplicar a metodologia :)
Scrum, entenda-se :))

Daqui: http://www.agile-software-development.com/2007/09/how-to-implement-scrum-in-10-easy-steps.html

- Step #1: Get your backlog in order!
- Step #2: How to estimate your product backlog
- Step #3: Sprint Planning/clarify requirements
- Step #4: Sprint Planning/estimate tasks
- Step #5: Create a collaborative workspace
- Step #6: Sprint!
- Step #7: Stand up and be counted!
- Step #8: Track progress with a daily burndown chart
- Step #9: Finish when you said you would
- Step #10: Review, reflect, repeat...