The StartUp
Agile Is The New Waterfall — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking
7 min · · This article generated a lot of passion, before responding please read my response to critics. · Shared by 80, including Jonas Bandi, Tom Connor, PotHix, dunschtig, Alain, Jessel Sookha, Alex Barrera, Marc Wieland, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Bjorn Larsen, Martin Neumann, Martin Recke
Martin Fowler
The State of Agile Software in 2018
18+ min · · Agile Software Development may be mainstream, but much of what's done is faux-agile, and we need to push back. · Shared by 73, including Beni Buess, Dominik Grolimund, Daniel Mezick, Luzius Meisser, kp, Esther Schindler, Michael Weibel
Pat Kua
Flavours of Agile
7 min · · I started programming around the time people published the Agile Manifesto. My manager at the time handed me the first edition of Extreme Programming Explained. · Shared by 70, including Ⓓarío Macchi, Christian P. Stobbe, Chris {he, they} , Massimiliano Aroffo, Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler
Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture
3 min · · The microservice architectural style presents challenges for organizing effective testing, this deck outlines the kinds of tests you need and how to mix them. · Shared by 62, including Leonid Bugaev, shishir das
scrumguides.org
Scrum Guide | Scrum Guides
20+ min · · This HTML version of the Scrum Guide is a direct port of the July 2016 version available as a PDF here. Purpose of the Scrum Guide Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.… · Shared by 62, including Stefan Weber, Klaus Eck, dunschtig, Thomas Pleil, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Stephanie A Kowalski, Ricardo Yasuda
agilemanifesto.org
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
1 min · · We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working… · Shared by 59, including Ryan Boren, Ines Bieler, Lea R. 🦄, Korben, #MuskOut (not parody), Alberto, Christian Müller, José Rodrigues, Luis Bravo, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Stefan Weber
Harvard Business Review
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
16+ min · · The burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them. · Shared by 46, including Tom Connor, Mark Kaigwa, Tony Haile, Mike Volpe
CircleCI
DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer: How this one principle changed my career
7 min · · This post defines DevOps based on my decades of experience working in tech. I’ll traverse my professional timeline discussing how DevOps came into my life and expressing how it impacted me and my… · Shared by 45, including William Toll, Ricardo Yasuda
The StartUp
Agile Is The New Waterfall — A Followup — The Startup — Medium
5 min · · Several months ago I wrote an article lamenting the fetishization of Agile in place of the practice of actually being agile (aka process… · Shared by 41, including hiten.eth, Tom Connor, dunschtig, David Cancel, Roger Wernli
McKinsey & Company
Planning in an agile organization
· Agile organizations rely on an innovative mix of stable and dynamic elements to bring planning up to speed with their fast-paced needs. · Shared by 34, including Tom Connor, Christian P. Stobbe, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Oscar MacDonald
ronjeffries.com
Story Points Revisited
7 min · · I like to say that I may have invented story points, and if I did, I’m sorry now. Let’s explore my current thinking on story points. At least one of us is interested in what I think. Stories, of… · Shared by 31, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Tim Herbig, John Cutler, Jonas Bandi
Age of Product
Remote Agile (Part 1): Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners
12+ min · · Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm. As a Professional Scrum Trainer,… · Shared by 22, including Scrum.org
modernagile.org
Modern Agile
6 min · · Over the past decade, innovative companies, software industry thought leaders and lean/agile pioneers have discovered simpler, sturdier, more streamlined ways to be agile. These modern approaches share a focus on producing exceptional outcomes and growing an outstanding culture. · Shared by 19, including Bradley Cloete, Joshua Kerievsky 🇺🇦, Ryan Boren, Tom Connor
InfoQ
Agile Agile Agile Blah Blah Blah
6 min · · “Agile” now means anything, everything, and nothing. Many organizations are Agile fatigued, and the “Agile Industrial Complex” is part of the problem. Agilists must go back to the basics and… · Shared by 15, including Linus Basig, Massimiliano Aroffo
Journal
Agile Isn’t New, It’s Just Common Sense Rebranded
13+ min · · Many people believe Agile to just be ‘the latest management fad’. Very often they scoff at the idea of becoming Agile because ‘something… · Shared by 12, including Kane Mar
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
Let’s have no managers, instead of managers with no engineering experience
8 min · · Over the course of my career as a developer I’ve been involved in a bad management situation more than once. · Shared by 12, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Matthew Turland