Archive for August, 2007

Try Another Way

Friday, August 31st, 2007

A great YouTube video on trying another way to run your project.

Comparative Analysis of Job Satisfaction in Agile and Non-Agile Software Development Teams

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Grigori Melnik and Frank Maurer from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary have researched the effects of Agile software development on job satisfaction. The results are quite interesting and present results which show increases in job satisfaction can be realized by team members through the use of Agile.

How to Accurately Estimate Projects

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Have you ever heard of wide-band delphi as an estimating technique? Bill Barr discusses this old technique from the 1940’s which is being resurrected through the Agile community with a new face lift in this article.

An Alternative Release Burndown Chart

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

The release burndown chart is used to track our planned amount of work versus actual progress. It is usually done simply by adding up all of the feature sizes on a release plan and then tracking on an iterative basis how much is left to do. Mike Cohn describes an alternative release burndown which considers the effects of additional work added during the release iterations.

Guides: Meeting Facilitation

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Facilitation is an essential aspect of supporting teams in delivering software. This article describes how a group, the Otesha bicycle team, has incorporated good facilitation into their journeys.