releasing vs delivering

Here’s a quick thought that you might like to use in your next retrospective: Do you know that the software you just released has realised the expected value? What if the answer is that you don’t know? How could you find out? And what might be the positive or negative side-effects of going to find [...]

Organizations Going Agile: Tread with Caution

Most organizations hire Agile coaches to carry out an organization wide Agile transformation. The intention is to have a lean and fit organization by the time coaches walk out of the building. However, it is very difficult to achieve transformation that improves the end-to-end delivery process and is sustainable if the transformation just begins at the team level. By Vikas Hazrati

Article:JSR 292 and the Multi-lingual JVM

Java 7 is looking to improve support for dynamic languages using the Java Virtual Machine for their runtime environment. John Rose has been leading a project to explore some options, and JSR 292 will standardise some of this work for Java 7. InfoQ takes a look at the problems JSR 292 solves, and talks to JRuby lead Charles Nutter to find out more about InvokeDynamic in practice. By Charles Humble

Agile Coaching Qualities, from A to Z

Successful ScrumMasters and agile coaches share many positive qualitieslisted here from AA to ZZ.
Attitude Affirmations
Dress up your attitude and you can achieve 100 percent success. Affirmation is a self talk w...

Scrum Process Proposal

A presentation to upper management about Scrum and how it could work for the company. May be helpful in evangelizing Scrum inside your own organization.

Debate: What is the Role of an Operations Team in Software Development Today? [Updated Apr 27th]

In the last several years, with the rise of such phenomena as Cloud Computing and DevOps, there has been some debate about the role of the traditional Operations team as it is often found in today's software development shops. InfoQ will explore this debate further, to get an understanding of the different aspects which are involved and the tradeoffs of each approach. By Ryan Slobojan

Build Shared Leadership in Scrum Team

Agenda
1. Why should we build shared leadershipin scrum team
2. What is shared leadership in scrum team
3. How to build shared leadership in scrum team

Scrum Beyond Software

Agile Estimation 2.0

Visualacitvecollaborationusing AGILEESTIMATION2.0

Product Owner Anti Patterns

Outline
ProductOwnerroleinScrum
Common anti patterns why they made yourproject fail
The Absent Product Owner
Copy The Old One
The Churning Backlog
The Waffling Definition of Done
No Single Product Owner MissingStakeholders QA