Agile Software Development Made Easy!

If You Chase Two Rabbits, You Won't Catch Either

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:59:15 PDT

Need I say more? No, thought not :) Kelly.

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Lean Principles #1 - Eliminate Waste

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:00:05 PDT

Lean software development advocates 7 lean principles, the first of which is 'Eliminate Waste'. Sounds obvious really. How many people came to work today to spend their time on waste? Some maybe! But not most. So what is waste, and how do you identify it? Some waste is obvious. But other forms...

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Keep In Touch With Email Alerts

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:56:13 PDT

For some time now, I've had the facility on this site for people to keep in touch with my blog posts through email alerts, but I've never really pointed it out. It's pretty cool, because with this new technology called email :) you'll never miss a trick! If you do sign up for email alerts, I...

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7 Key Principles of Lean Software Development

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:42:29 PDT

I haven't blogged much about lean development. I'm not an expert on lean, but agile development is a great example of lean thinking in action. So I thought it might be interesting to blog a bit about lean software development, and how I see it... Before you can really put anything into practice,...

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Looking For An Agile Sponsor

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:00:00 PDT

Since starting this agile blog back in 2007, I have spent countless hours writing original content and trying to help the agile community by describing some of my personal experiences of implementing agile methods such as Scrum, XP (Extreme Programming) and Lean. The site has gained a significant...

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Agile User Stories, Themes, Epics, Features - What's The Difference?

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:27:02 PDT

A recent comment on one of my blog posts asked about the difference between agile user stories, themes, epics, and features, and about the relationship, or hierarchy, between these terms? Admittedly it is a bit confusing, as these phrases are often used quite interchangeably (at least by me). ...

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'Ads Are The New Tip Jar' - By Seth Godin

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:26:31 PDT

Seth Godin is one of the most famous bloggers around and has authored numerous books on the subject of marketing. I just ran into this old post of his, 'Ads are the new tip jar'. It's an interesting, but controversial concept. At first the idea certainly appealed. Bloggers, like myself, spend...

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IPC Media Sponsoring Agile Awards

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:27:39 PDT

I'm delighted to announce that IPC Media - the company I work for as Web Technology Director - has agreed to sponsor the first ever Agile Awards in the UK. We're sponsoring the award for Best Agile Team - something that's close to my heart because teamwork is such an important part of agile...

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Agile Awards 2010 (UK)

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:19:53 PDT

The Agile Business Conference is sponsoring the Agile Awards 2010 – the inaugural Awards for the UK Agile Community. There will be 10 Awards recognising the People, Projects and Products that have contributed to Agile in the UK. Nominations for each Award are invited from all members of the UK...

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Agile Business Conference 2010 - London, Oct 5-6th

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:27:57 PDT

The next Agile Business Conference in London is being held on 5-6th October at the Inmarsat Conference Centre. The theme of the conference this year is 'The Naked Truth'. As agile development has been adopted by many organisations and as it begins to mature, this year's conference aims to explore...

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Agile Scrum, Or Not-So-Agile Scrum?

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:00:06 PDT

Scrum is the form of agile software development that has helped me the most. It has helped me to transform the performance of the web development groups that I've led at both my current company and at my last one. But, sometimes, I do wonder if Scrum is really agile enough? There are quite a...

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Agile Estimating in Scrum - Why Estimate Twice?

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:05:58 PDT

In my series of posts "How to Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps", I refer to two stages of estimating: Step 2 is how to estimate your Product Backlog. Step 4 is estimating tasks in Sprint Planning. Someone recently asked me a very good question - why estimate twice? I thought it would be worth...

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Agile Software Development Saves Lives!

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:15:00 PDT

Ahem. Actually that's a bit of an exaggeration. I have to be honest with you. Agile software development probably doesn't really save lives. There, you heard it from me first. I just felt like being melodramatic... Someone once joked with me that "agile is great, but you wouldn't use it on an...

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How To Be An Agile Leader

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:03:37 PST

Leadership is a mysterious art. Whether you're leading an agile development team or not, some of the important qualities of an inspirational leader are obviously the same. My latest blog post on the subject is now live on Jurgen Appelo's new site, "Management 3.0". Take a look by clicking on the...

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10 Things I Hate About Agile Development!

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:00:07 PST

Agile development. Love it or hate it, there's no doubt that it's here to stay. I've enjoyed a great deal of success thanks to agile software development and agile project management methods, but here are 10 things I hate about Agile! 1. Saying you're doing Agile just cos you're doing daily...

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Agile Business Conference 2010 in London

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:00:02 PST

I've recently received an email from the organisers of the Agile Business Conference 2010 in London. For those that aren't on their mailing list, I've copied their message below for you. They're asking for suggestions for the topics of the various breakout sessions. If you're planning to go, I...

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5 Reasons Why Agile Development Must Be Driven from the Top

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:00:08 PST

Agile development is often initiated by the development team itself. Whilst they may find some good advantages, the most profound benefits of agile software development will not be realised unless it is driven from the top. Here's why: 1. Multi-disciplined teams One of the key concepts of agile...

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Pair Programming - An Extremely Agile Practice

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:17:04 PST

Pair Programming. It's probably one of the most extreme practices of eXtreme Programming (XP). It's an area of agile software development that polarises opinion. The concept is simple enough. Two developers work side by side on the same piece of work, sharing a keyboard and screen and working...

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Agile Visitors in 2009

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:44:45 PST

Hi everyone! This blog just seems to keep on growing! It's a bit belated, but I just had a look back at last year's stats... 2009 brought over 750,000 page views from 200,000 people! That's astonishing to me - it's so good to think that this blog might have helped so many people. Thank you all...

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'All About Agile' is no more!

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:34:20 PST

Back in September, I renamed this blog from 'All About Agile' to Agile Software Development Made Easy! If you are one of the many people kind enough to link to my blog on your home page, but you're still listing me under the old name, please would you update the link text to Agile Software...

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Agile Software Development Estimating Experiment

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:08:26 PST

I recently came across this agile estimating experiment by Lance Walton. The article is quite old now but I still found it very interesting... In recent years, I've had quite a fascination with the concept of velocity and estimating in points. To be honest, it took me quite a while to really get...

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Agile Software Development Made Easy! - The Book

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:10:10 PST

Finally I've managed to convert my two most popular blog series' - 10 Key Principles of Agile Software Development, and How To Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps - into a book! It's a fairly short book. 108 pages to be precise! A lot of books about agile are quite big, with small text, and are...

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Agile Project Management Software

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:00:00 PST

Back in September 2009, I ran a poll on what agile project management software people would recommend. I was amazed at the response - so far (Jan 2010), about 2,000 people have voted! For those that haven't been back to the poll to see the results, here they are: Lots of other agile project...

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Agile Community has over 200 members in first week

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:54:32 PST

Hi everyone. I'm delighted with the progress of my new Agile Community. It's only been live for a week and already we have over 200 members, who are actively contributing to discussions on the agile forum on all sorts of topics from agile project management software, feedback mechanisms, team...

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New Year Round-up!

allaboutagile@gmail.com (Kelly Waters) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:18:27 PST

Happy new year! I've been on holiday for a few weeks, so apart from setting up my new Agile Community, I haven't blogged for a little while. I thought I'd start the new year with a round-up of some of the things in my RSS reader that I found interesting when I got back from my holiday. Here they...

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