agile
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How to Tell if Your Team Is Really AgileAgile teams run like a well-oiled machine, so it’s important to take a look at your group and assess just how agile it really is. What fixable problems might you be experiencing that are jamming up the system, causing the process to run slower than it needs to? | 
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Overcome DevOps Adoption Barriers to Accelerate Software DeliveryEvery team can improve its delivery speed. When teams increase agility and reduce time to market by adopting agile software development practices, DevOps principles, and cloud self-service platforms, they choose a development and operations environment that accelerates software delivery. | 
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Make Sure Measuring Agile Metrics Is Really Leading to ImprovementIn your quest to figure out how your team is doing with its agile process, gathering data can be useful—as long as it does not add significant overhead to your project or get in the way of delivering customer value. Don't let the desire to quantify your improvement get in the way of improving. | 
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Planning Techniques for Estimating ProjectsAgile teams often use estimation to plan projects. There are many different methods, and which you choose should depend on the type of work, what kind of deadline there is, and your team. Matt Heusser explains some estimating techniques that can expand your options when planning a work effort. | 
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The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing: Crosscutting ConcernsThe Three Pillars is a framework for establishing a balanced strategic plan for effective quality and testing. But beyond the individual pillars themselves, the real value resides in crosscutting concerns. It requires a balance across all three pillars to implement any one of the practices properly. | 
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Are You Focusing on the Right Thing in Your Sprint Reviews?The role of demonstration in a sprint review often takes on more importance than it should, even to the extent that some teams refer to the review as a demo. By focusing on the demo you risk having the team do all the talking, rather than a two-way conversation between the team and the stakeholders. |
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What's in the Spring 2015 Issue of Better Software Magazine?There’s been a meteoric adoption of DevOps, requiring attention to higher quality processes throughout the SDLC and deployment. Our authors in this issue of Better Software magazine see development teams attempting to deliver on this new program of continuous integration and rapid deployment. | 
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The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing: The Pillars Explained When adopting agile, organizations can be plagued with quality imbalance. Bob Galen found that all agile testing practices and activities can be grouped into three categories: development and test automation, software testing, and cross-functional team practices. He reviews these "pillars" of agile. |
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