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Infecting a team with Agile: Part 4:

There is no part 4, things fell apart when it actually came time for me to start writing code again.  With nobody to keep the agile push going it just died. I am really bummed about it, we have still kept a few of the philosophies around in spirit, but all of the practical implementations are gone. I’m very [...]
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Infecting a team with Agile: Part 3: Educating Management

In part 2 of the series we reviewed some ways to bring an inexperienced development team up to speed on some of the core concepts and fundamentals of agile. This week we will talk about the same topic but with a different target audience. Management. Now a good friend of mine, and colleague that I learned [...]
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Infecting a team with agile “Part 2″ – Education

In part one of the series I covered some of the preparation I had to go through to start on the journey of getting my new team infected with agile. Things have been going ok, there are some improvements to some of the tools I would like to see, but hey that’s the point right? If it doesn’t [...]
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Infecting a team with Agile: Part 1 – Preparation

One of the core tenants of agile is: “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” But anyone that has done any work in an agile shop knows that to achieve many of the goals of agile you need to have certain types of tools in place to facilitate the process.  This past week I have been preparing [...]
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Infecting a team with agile

Part of what I’m doing at my job is getting the development practices we use internally up to date.  Previous to my current job i worked at a company that went through adopting agile as it’s primary development practice.  The result was a fantastic working environment and that is my goal here, to create a [...]
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