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Why It's Difficult for Agile Teams to Let Go of Waterfall Practices For many projects that have rapidly changing requirements, agile often seems to be the right approach. But teams have a hard time adopting agile practices. It’s far from rare to hear of teams trying to fit practices from their former waterfall method into their new agile process. |
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Adopting Agile Means Accepting Change: What to Do? Adopting agile means change. And change is hard. But if your current process isn't working as well as you would like, you may need to change. The challenge is to explain the value of agile in a way that helps people open up to new ideas. |
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Ease Your Transition to Agile and Learn What Your Team Needs If you are starting a transition to agile, first ask yourself: Why do we want to transition to agile? Agile is about the ability to respond to change. Once you understand what your organization’s issues are and you can resolve them, you can move to a program. |
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Agile Development Teams: Plan or Be Planned For Steve Vaughn writes that if your team is not planning for future releases, someone else will plan them for you. Teams must embrace the fact that strategic planning will happen and take ownership of the process. |
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Why Accepting Failure Is Necessary The phrase “failure is not an option” is a common cliche often used to motivate people to succeed. But forbidding failure does not prevent it. A mindset that denies failure might actually detract from long-term success. |
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What Team Members Get Wrong with Retrospectives Venkatesh Krishnamurthy explains some common misconceptions with retrospectives. Having a rigid mindset and believing that teams should only do retrospectives at the end of an iteration or raise issues only during standup meetings reduce agility and result in process-oriented thinking. |
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How Agile Led to the Creation of the Technical Product Owner Agile has become the primary mechanism by which normally incompatible roles crossbreed and create distinctive positions that bring great value to a company. Steve Vaughn writes on how agile has led to the creation of a new role—the technical product owner—that has benefited his team. |
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Book Review: To Sell Is Human Steve Berczuk reviews Daniel Pink’s recent book To Sell Is Human and explains how it's a resource that can benefit agile practitioners. The main message in the book is how everyone, not just those engaged in commerce, are selling all the time. |
