Month: February 2013

Agile Practices Proven in Highly Regulated Environments

February 28, 2013 0

Many organisations operate in highly regulated environments, such as healthcare, have concluded that in order to achieve the next level of product quality and safety improvements, not to mention enhanced competitiveness, adoption of a more Agile approach is required. In this presentation, you will learn how the Agile software development approach for high assurance systems addresses many of the challenges found in many highly regulated enterprise environments.

Agile Teams Structures

February 25, 2013 0

Agile and Scrum project teams can adopt many different structures. In her blog post, Elizabeth Harrin gives a good summary of five structures that could be used by Agile teams based on a presentation made by Catherine Powell at the Oredev conference.

Reducing Technical Debt

February 18, 2013 0

Technical debt a metaphor that refers to the eventual consequences of poor or evolving software architecture and software development within a codebase. The technical debt can be defined of as work that needs to be done to adapt a software to the best practices. In this blog post, Bastian Buch explains the step used in his organisation to reduce technical debt in an Agile way.

Scaling the Sprint Review With a Fair

February 13, 2013 0

The main goal of a sprint review in Scrum is to receive feedback on the product that the team has built in the last sprint. How do you do when the product is created by many different teams and there multiple stakeholders who are involved in the Scrum project? In this article, Stephan Kraus explains how to scale the sprint review in Scrum using the fair concept.

Self-Organization and Estimation in Scrum

February 6, 2013 0

In Scrum the estimation effort and accuracy depend on the team. In this article, Jingjie Wang discusses the situation where the Scrum team tends to underestimate its capacity to deliver so to be sure that the product owner and the scrummaster are always happy at the end of each sprint because everything promised is deliver.

Games for Project Risk Management

February 4, 2013 0

Collaborative risk management brings many benefits to Scrum teams, notably by generating wiser decisions and creating a collective ownership of issues. In his blog, Mike Griffiths describes some collaborative games that can be use project risk management.