Agile Buddha
Demystifying Agile, Getting to its Core
Recently I got interviewed by DiscussAgile on a topic known by several names, i.e. Specification by Example, Behavior Driven Development or Acceptance Test Driven Development.
Here’s the Google Hangout recording available on YouTube.
Following topics got discussed as part of interview:
Enjoy and provide your feedback.
This year I delivered a presentation on “Distributed Agile Patterns” in Agile India conference held in Bangalore based on different patterns evolved or discovered during my Agile journey.
The video is available now. You may want to have a look and provide your feedback.
One of the basic but important customer expectations is – the software product should be of very good quality. That makes sense as well. However, what exactly “good quality” means?
Here are characteristics of good quality software:
With physical boards current sprint state is transparently visible to anybody in the team and to the stakeholders. As a team member you no longer are required to explain someone what exactly the team is focusing on right now as anyone can look at physical board at any point of time. Also, during standup, story-card and sprint progress get more attention than individual progress. You can setup your physical board the way you want and you don’t have to work around the limitation of any electronic tool.
[Read more…] about Printing Physical Scrum Board From Atlassian Jira
Fixed-price projects are all about fixed scope, money and time. In such a contradictory scenario, the question is, how should we accommodate continual changes in the Product Backlog?
Is it even possible to work in a fixed price Agile mode? If so, how?
This post outlines the most common challenges in executing fixed price Agile projects. It also suggests ways to handle them.