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FM – THE STORY OF A REPEATABLE AGILE SUCCESSFUL PROJECT

By toni | Published: August 30, 2009
One of the biggest strength of Agile software development is the capability of mixing up many different tools and techniques. Agile is not a check- box list of practices that you have to embrace in your project. With this experience report I want to share the experience of a continuous, repeatable successful project: the agile [...]
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A very long list of Agile, Lean & C. books

By toni | Published: June 10, 2009
I’ve used to have this list on a Google Spreadsheet, it took me quite a while to sort it (the first 3-5 books for each category are more essential than the others) and place the links, but here it is, more than sixty agile-related books! Agile Process User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn Agile Estimating [...]
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Kanban with Pomodoro, it’s like spaghetti with sushi but it might work

By toni | Published: June 8, 2009
I’ve read a couple of tweets today (demonstrating that Twitter perhaps sometimes makes sense)  and I’m aggregating them here: Jason Yip twitted a link to this short, clever blog post from Matt Wynne defining kanban: There are no iterations: only now. Work at a pace you can truly sustain. Done means it is in the [...]
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Project Standards

By toni | Published: May 8, 2009
I recently played a leadership role in a project where two of the biggest challenges where the time schedule and the team on boarding. I hate repeating myself, so after explaining the technology, architectural choices a couple of times I decided to write some kind of document or presentation. I’ve created a sample document containing [...]
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