Penny wise, pound foolish - Are we harming ourselves by "saving time" not building quality into code up front?
One of the concerns about Test Driven Development (TDD) is the impact on short-term velocity; writing a function plus the tests requires more time up front than writing the function alone. The trade-off is in quality. But how much velocity do you lose...

Any so-called Agile team that ever tries to translate “points” into actual units of time is presumed dysfunctional until proven otherwise.
An agile project that is converting points into real units of time is potentially dysfunctional because it’s a sign that a) the advantages of the points/velocity system aren’t being fully utilized or b) the business team is having too much influence...

Extreme Agility at Facebook | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
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Documents agiles - Blog de Fabrice Aimetti
Traduction en français de nombreux doc sur les développements agiles

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The Ruby revolution is over | Merbist
"The Ruby community also revived the Agile/XP world. Testing being a strong value of the community, we spent a lot of time discussing TDD, BDD, integration test as well as other practices such as pair programming, code review, sprints etc.."

For Value Blockage, Take Some X-LACKS
This week, I had the distinct pleasure of co-presenting with the ever lovable Mitch Lacey at the Agile Development Practices conference in Orlando. I also got the chance to have a great conversation with Alan Shalloway about the state of Scrum and the...

Gerrit Code Review
Gerrit is a web based code review system, facilitating online code reviews for projects using the Git version control system.

User Stories: a strategic design tool - Johnny Holland - It’s all about interaction
A collaborative approach enables clients to actively participate in the process, increasing the likelihood of achieving a collective vision for the project. This article focuses on the first step in the journey towards collaboratively developing a User...

Lasse's weblog - Ways to split user stories
having found that people find it difficult to split in any other way than what they've done so far unless they can look at examples, I thought I should share what I teach about splitting user stories.

Patterns for Splitting User Stories | Richard Lawrence
Over my years with agile, I’ve discovered nine patterns for splitting user stories into good, smaller stories.

Simon Bennett's Blog : The philosophy of Kanban is Kryptonite to Scrum
To close: The philosophy of Kanban if applied to the practice of Scrum truly is like Kryptonite. That Scrum project will weaken as long as the philosophy is nearby.Take it away and that project will regain strength.If you cannot bear to do that then...