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Category Archives: Agile

Getting Agile Right

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Last week Jenny and I gave our new talk, Getting Agile Right [pdf], for the first time. We’re really excited, because it also marks our first public announcement of our current book project for  O’Reilly: a new book about agile development and project management. It’s aimed at people preparing for the PMI-ACP certification, but our goal is [...]

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Agile testing and understanding change

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Tomorrow at the Agile 2009 conference, Abby Fichtner and Nate Oster are doing a workshop called Where Does Developer Testing End and Tester Testing Begin?. Jenny and I hope you can make it, because they’ll be doing a giveaway of autographed copies Beautiful Teams. Check out my O’Reilly Community posts for more information: Agile testing [...]

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Iterative development is not unplanned development

Thursday, July 16, 2009

I got a great question from a software developer who also happens to be a fellow CMU alum. I have a question related to managing scope creep with respect to “on-going”/iterative development processes. I’m currently managing a project where we’re redesigning my application’s primary workflow. Simply put, the app is currently designed to have users [...]

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Requirements 101: User Stories vs. Use Cases

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Here’s a question that I get over and over again: What’s the difference between user stories and use cases? — Ron K. Before I dive into an answer to that question, let’s rewind a little bit and talk about where user stories came from. I like them because they’re a great example of how the [...]

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Some great questions about PMP and Agile development

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Jenny and I are doing a really nifty Q&A on the JavaRanch Saloon. People are asking us all sorts of great questions about Head First PMP, and we’re doing our best to answer every single one of them. We’ve gotten a lot of really good questions about Agile and how it works with PMP. It [...]

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