Technical Debt - 10x Software Development
"The reason most often cited by technical staff for avoiding debt altogether is the challenge of communicating the existence of technical debt to business staff and the challenge of helping business staff remember the implications of the technical...

Just My Thoughts: Criteria for a Scrum Tool - or any Agile tool, that is
In one of the many mailing list threads on tools for Scrum teams, I posted a list of evaluation criteria that I'm quite happy with. So I decided that it might be worth a blog entry. [...] The most appropriate tools I know for those requirements...

New to agile? Keep it very simple
6 Principles of Simple Agile 1. Collaborate 2. Work together 3. Honor priorities 4. Respect the customer, the process, the product, the team and each other 5. Do the simplest thing that works – then stop 6. Improve every iteration.

What's the ideal Sprint length | Agile Software Development
[...] Much of the Agile community agrees that shorter Sprints are better. So 2 week Sprints and even 1 week Sprints are becoming more the norm.

selenadelesie.com » Is My Scrum Master Helping or Hindering?
Good article by @sdelesie on team leadership and being a good Scrum Master

Management Debt, Technical Debt, and Decision-Making
Dave and Bob have great comments on my post, Might Three Backlogs Be Better Than One?. Dave is describing situations where management is making reasonable decisions, not incurring management debt, and by extension, technical debt. Bob and I have...

KP-Lab Wiki: Knotworking
"Expert work that takes place in relatively rapidly emerging and disappearing projects functioning within frames of complex constellations of organizations, representing divergent sectors and without clear-cut boundaries. Knotworking represents...

Agile Fun and Games
The Bottleneck Game: Discover ToC, Agile, Lean and Real Options by Playing

http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/285
“Introduction to Agile with the Theory of Constraints” in which I use concepts from Theory of Constraints to motivate the practices of agile software development, notably those of extreme programming. If you buy in to ideas from Theory of Constraints...

Echoes from the Stone Age
"Problems like Bowling, Prime Factors, and Bubble Sort hold out the interesting promise that TDD may be a way to derive algorithms from first principles!"

Cenqua: Introducing the PairOn - Welcome to Extreme XP
Cenqua have partnered with Herman Miller, makers of the legendary Aeron, to produce the ultimate must-have for Extreme XPers: The PairOn.

Limited WIP Society - Home of Kanban for Software Development
The Limited WIP Society is intended to be the home of kanban for software development community.The growth of people doing Kanban, talking about Kanban, or wanting to find out about Kanban has been pretty rapid. Currently we have lots of people...

allan's blog - Agile, Lean, Patterns: 10 things to know about Kanban software development
"David’s innovation was to explicitly limit the work in progress. This had been done by other Agile teams before but in Kanban there is a well-known limit on the number of work items which may be worked on at one time. The limit is usually quite...

Lean and Kanban Software Development Digest | Edge of Chaos | Agile Development Blog
"Lean and Kanban software development adoption is growing. More and more companies setup Kanban Boards, limit WIP and eliminate Muda." -- from source This collection of links will help you understand all that buzz around Lean/Kanban and...

Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile
When I was growing up, cholesterol used to be bad for you. It was easy to remember. Fat, bad. Cholesterol bad. Salt, bad. Everything, bad. Nowadays, though, they differentiate between "good" cholesterol and "bad" cholesterol, as if...