Velocity is one of the most common metrics used (and misused) on Agile and Scrum projects. Velocity is simply a measurement of speed in a given direction; the rate at which a team is delivering toward a product release. As with a vehicle en route to a particular destination, increasing the speed may appear to […]

Velocity is one of the most common metrics used (and misused) on Agile and Scrum projects. Velocity is simply a measurement of speed in a given direction; the rate at which a team is delivering toward a product release. As with a vehicle en route to a particular destination, increasing the speed may appear to […]

When asked “What is your architecture?” most people immediately respond with how their software is laid out and what their plans are for improving parts of it. Rarely does anybody really think through their team and organizational architecture, and even more rarely do people understand how that may fundamentally impact how the software gets...

When asked “What is your architecture?” most people immediately respond with how their software is laid out and what their plans are for improving parts of it. Rarely does anybody really think through their team and organizational architecture, and even more rarely do people understand how that may fundamentally impact how the software gets...

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is one of the best know approach for scaling Agile practices. In a recent article, Al Shalloway proposes his own assessment of this framework, explaining which parts are good and which parts could be counter-productive or difficult to implement. The article starts by listing the good parts of the Scaled Agile...

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is one of the best know approach for scaling Agile practices. In a recent article, Al Shalloway proposes his own assessment of this framework, explaining which parts are good and which parts could be counter-productive or difficult to implement. The article starts by listing the good parts of the Scaled Agile...

Scrum.org has announced its new Professional Training Network (PTN). The network consists of a group of organizations officially recognized as providers of Scrum.org training. PTN members leverage the Scrum.org premium brand, courses and Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) community to provide a superior learning experience to their customers. “It...

Scrum.org has announced its new Professional Training Network (PTN). The network consists of a group of organizations officially recognized as providers of Scrum.org training. PTN members leverage the Scrum.org premium brand, courses and Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) community to provide a superior learning experience to their customers. “It...

Henrik Kniberg goes through a handful of concrete steps for diagnosing and debugging Scrum problems. He talks about using the process wrong, blaming the messenger, being impatient, not adapting the process or using the wrong process. Henrik Kniberg also introduces some new Scrum terminology such as Scrumdamentalism, Sadoscrumism, and...

Henrik Kniberg goes through a handful of concrete steps for diagnosing and debugging Scrum problems. He talks about using the process wrong, blaming the messenger, being impatient, not adapting the process or using the wrong process. Henrik Kniberg also introduces some new Scrum terminology such as Scrumdamentalism, Sadoscrumism, and...

Since Java 8 the JDK has a Stream API. Among numerous other operations the Stream API offers two operations – reduce() and collect() – which are occasionally misunderstood and thus used incorrectly – at the expense of introducing subtle bugs in conjunction with parallel streams. This tutorial discusses the background of this...

Since Java 8 the JDK has a Stream API. Among numerous other operations the Stream API offers two operations – reduce() and collect() – which are occasionally misunderstood and thus used incorrectly – at the expense of introducing subtle bugs in conjunction with parallel streams. This tutorial discusses the background of this...

Some enterprise IT organisations are adopting Continuous Delivery and DevOps thinking that tools is enough to do the job, that all of a sudden they will go faster to market and build quality in because they are automating their existing delivery process. Just throwing tools at the problem is not enough; to be successful, organisations […]

Some enterprise IT organisations are adopting Continuous Delivery and DevOps thinking that tools is enough to do the job, that all of a sudden they will go faster to market and build quality in because they are automating their existing delivery process. Just throwing tools at the problem is not enough; to be successful, organisations […]

In the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail“, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table had to face the obstacle of the knights who say “ni!” to travel further in their quest for the Grail. In the modern software development world, it seems that software developers can instead follow the knights that […]