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The Bad News
The bad news: your Agile transition will never arrive at “We’ve transitioned. What’s next?” Instead, you will embark on an evolution to the agile that’s right for you.
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Agile in Action
Do you remember the early days of Agile? The later 1990’s? the early 2000’s? For those readers who don’t, in those early days of team-focused Agile we would often visit teams and hear, “This is the best job I’ve ever had. I love this work. I love working this way!”
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Estimation and Fluency
Martin Fowler recently asked me via email if I thought there might be a relationship between Agile Fluency and how teams approach estimation. This is my response: I definitely see a relationship between fluency and estimation. I can’t say it’s clear cut or that I have real data on it, but this is my gut feel.
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Let’s get REAL about Agile Fluency® Joy
“We tried retrospectives and it didn’t work for us.” “We tried TDD and it didn’t work for us.” “We tried pairing…backlog grooming…Scrum…Kanban…Lean…(N-methods) and it didn’t work for us.” And this is true with many other Agile practices. Take back joyful, effective Agile.
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Agile Without Dedicated QA
In the early days of Agile, methods such as Extreme Programming advocated for shipping without a QA phase. In fact, they often didn’t have dedicated testers—or even bug-tracking systems. And yet there are stories of these teams producing an order of magnitude fewer defects than normal.
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Estimates or No Estimates?
The Agile community has been arguing about whether estimates are a good idea or not for a while now. In this talk at Øredev in November 2015, I think I did a pretty good job of threading the needle. I talk about how and when to estimate, and why you might not want to.
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