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Recently I read this article, "Group Thinking Clouds Decisions" on live Science. " http://www.livescie nce.com/humanbio logy...

Retrospective meetings are the heart of agile methodologies. Scrum teams follow this religiously at the end of each iteration. When a team s...

A nice article by Martin Fowler about thoughts, trends and future of Agile. He discusses the topic, if Agile just a buzzword ? where are ...

Testing private methods was posted here

Here is a nice article on Agile Journal trying to differentiate between Agile Vs agile

How do you differentiate a traditional Planner Vs Agile Planner. Here are some of my thoughths about them. Traditional Planner during plan...

While I was coaching one of the teams on Requirement workshop at Valtech , I jotted down some ideas, and here they are: 1. Once the feature ...

I have seen many programmers getting confused between Features and tasks. Features are going to be part of Product Backlog and Tasks, are ...

Here is a nice link on various types of Agile Contracts (Fixed Price, T&M, etc)

A house is being newly constructed in front of my house. I have been watching this from the last few weeks. One day, I saw the owner with th...

Here is the list of some of the good books on Agile software development and related areas. I am hoping to keep this list updated: 1. Agile ...

Here is a nice article comparing Scrum with Traditional Project Management

When agile methodology(specifically Scrum) is introduced into an organization, first question that is discussed is about the scrum roles. M...

I have heard many managers in software companies trying to measure productivity based on Velocity of the team. I think it makes no sense. H...

Here is a very good article for all who would like to improve on a daily basis. I could related many of the practices in this article to scr...

Here is nice article from Mike Cohn about Velocity I find that one of the most common mistakes teams make is to use the term ...

Here is a nice article about retrospectives Retrospectives ...

Stumbled upon the 17 tips to iteration planning . Even though there are more to it, one can add, but definitely these are the ones to sta...

Here are some of the tips that could help during planning poker estimation sessions 1. Ensure that all developers show the estimation cards ...

Pairing takes about 15% more effort than one individual working alone, but produces results more quickly and with 15% fewer defects [Cockbur...