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agile

Project & Team Management

Don’t Include a Blocked Column in Your Software Development Workflow

The problem with a blocked column is that it takes the problem of leadership indecision and warehouse it in a development team's workflow.
The Software Life

Between the Lines: Parallels Between Professional Football and Software Development

My previous work as a professional football player is fairly uncommon in the software development industry, but there are more parallels than you'd expect.
Project & Team Management

The HiPPO Effect on Customers and Product Teams

It's important that decision-makers understand how the highest-paid person in the office (HiPPO) can negatively affect customers and the product team.
Project & Team Management

The 10-Box Exercise: Where Estimate Rubber Hits the Calendar Road

The 10-box exercise is an agile planning tool that helps the team visualize the sprint schedule and account for how the actual calendar impacts delivery.
The Software Life

Agile Practices for Normal Life – A Retrospective

Welcome back to Agile Practices for Normal Life. Today, we’re going to get a little meta and talk about doing a sprint retrospective of this experiment.
The Software Life

Agile Practices for Normal Life – Planning a Sprint

This is the fifth installment of my series on using Agile Practices for Normal Life. Today, we’re going to plan our first sprint!
The Software Life

Agile Practices for Normal Life – Defining & Estimating Stories

In today's entry in my series on Agile Practices for Normal Life, we'll dig into the backlog with a focus on defining and estimating our stories.
The Software Life

Agile Practices for Normal Life – Building a Backlog

Thanks for following along as I adapt agile software practices into "normal" life! Today, we’re going to talk about building a non-software-related backlog.
The Software Life

Agile Practices for Normal Life – Project Kickoff

I am running an experiment I'm calling Agile Practices for Normal Life. In this second post of a six-part series, I'll talk about the “project” kickoff.
The Software Life

Agile Practices for Normal Life – An Introduction

An ever-growing to-do list is not the greatest for my mental state. I've realized my "normal" life might benefit from some agile practices.
Project & Team Management

Developing a Better Understanding of Agile Teamwork

What is most special about the agile approach is how it frees a team to work how they think they should based on challenges they see on the ground.
Evolving the Industry

What it Was Like as a Developer at Atomic in 2002

We weren't trying to think up the next great experimental idea. Instead, we were looking to be the best practitioners we could be — taking good new ideas and refining them.

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