As part of an ongoing series on retrospectives, Managing Consultant Brian Hicks offers four reasons why functional teams often overlook tracking retrospective action items.
As part of an ongoing series on retrospectives, Managing Consultant Brian Hicks offers four reasons why functional teams often overlook tracking retrospective action items.
Senior Consultant Jonathan Kauffman discusses ways to integrate IV&V into an agile development team to improve team and organization velocity.
In this counter-opinion, Senior Consultant Byron Katz discusses why a lack of action items from an agile team’s retrospective might be a symptom of deeper problems.
Long-time testing experts Jeffery Payne, Johanna Rothman, and Robert Sabourin debate whether agile has helped or hurt testing.
In Celebration of Agile’s 20th Anniversary, Executive Vice President Mike Sowers reflects on how software testing and testing professionals have been influenced by agile principles and practices.
As Agile turns 20, COO Dave Burke shares some thoughts on why it has survived, evolved, and thrived when so many new ideas in technology fade.
Early in the software engineering journey, there were primarily developers. Developers had a wide array of accountabilities: designing, coding, testing, deploying, maintaining, and more. Quality was inherently built in and championed by the triad of the customer, the business, and the developers. As we scaled, we segmented these responsibilities across roles, which came with both […]
Scrum. Kanban. Lean. XP. SAFe. RUP. Scrum of Scrums. There are many frameworks available to organizations that are maturing their agile software development process. However, the use of some frameworks can help reinforce agile behaviors, while others can be degenerative and actually drive an organization to revert to more waterfall-like software development. The choice of […]
As I mentioned in my previous post, this is a challenging time for agile teams as we are transitioning to being fully remote. Many are struggling to follow the agile principles, especially those that promote co-location and face-to-face communication. But even though we now find ourselves in a situation where these principles are challenging, it […]
A common misunderstanding among those new to agile is exactly what the role of the ScrumMaster is on the team. I have often heard people say, “I didn’t sign up to be a ScrumMaster; it’s not my job to talk to the product owner,” or “I’m not the ScrumMaster; I don’t like to act like […]
