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Scrum/Kanban Series: Where to Start

May 11, 2012 — Posted by Alan Shalloway

"If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.


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A New Season of Lean-Agile Straight Talk, A New Webinar Series

May 10, 2012 — Posted by Jim Trott
It is springtime in Seattle, a good time to start anew. Since the last season of Lean-Agile Straight Talk, we have been writing and consulting and coaching and working with many clients. We have greatly deepened our understanding. To start the new season of Lean-Agile Straight Talk, I asked Alan Shalloway, CEO and Founder of Net Objectives, to start sharing somw of what is on his mind right now based on what we have been learning. If you know Alan, you will know that one of his main things is the gap between knowing and doing that is in our industry, we know a lot of what to do but the doing is often not yet in common practice.

And this is leading Net Objectives to offer Lean-Agile at Scale and at the Team: The Value Stream Series, a new webinar series that helps you know what to pay attention to to close that gap


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Mindsets: Waterfall, 1st & 2nd Generation Agile

April 28, 2012 — Posted by Alan Shalloway

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein


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Scrum/Kanban Series: Scrum Is One of Many Agile Methods

April 17, 2012 — Posted by Alan Shalloway

This blog starts out what I'm hoping will be an ongoing, weekly, series of short (written in less than 30 minutes) of blogs on Scrum and Kanban.

Blog update note: After writing this blog it caused some conversation on twitter where I realized this was a fairly important topic. So I have updated this blog and will also turn it into an article.


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Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Test-Driven Development – How Are They the Same and How Are They Different?

April 5, 2012 — Posted by Ken Pugh

 

Although Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) both have the word "Test" in them. However, the primary purpose of neither is testing. ATDD revolves around the customer, developer, and tester creating detailed examples of requirements in order to understand and clarify the requirements. TDD involves analyzing the requirements of a portion of an implementation. The examples and the analysis evolve into what are commonly called tests, thus the common part of the name. Let's start with a simple example:


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Alan Shalloway
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Scott Bain
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