Agile Development Methods
Agile Development Methods
Agile Development Stories
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Are Solo Agile Practices for You?The road to agile is a difficult for many teams, leading some developers to wonder if they shouldn't just go about becoming agile on their own. The idea of solo agility has been around for a few years now, and—outside of "it's difficult"—many people can't find a reason not to give it a shot. | 
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Embrace Changing Requirements or Work Hard to Reduce Uncertainty?Agile development teams and practitioners can welcome changing requirements all they want—but how hard should they work to reduce the uncertainty that accompanies changing requirements? Experts have mixed opinions on the topic, and each side makes a pretty convincing argument. |
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What ALM Tool Features Best Support Agile Software Development?Joe Farah details the key features necessary in application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to make them practical for agile development. At a minimum, agile-friendly ALM tools must support user stories, prioritization, traceability, continuous integration, and metrics for post-iteration analysis. | 
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Making Telecommuting Work for Your Product Development TeamCan you make telecommuting work for your organization? Of course you can. The question is this: Will it make your product development proceed faster, with more ease and less cost, and allow you the most flexibility? If not, you may want to reconsider having employees telecommute. | 
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How Agile Can Deliver on a Fixed-Budget (Not Fixed-Price) PromiseDevelopment projects run into problems any time they attempt to stick to a fixed-price, fixed-scope, and fixed-completion contract. Learn why this fixed iron-triangle sets projects up for failure and what agile teams can do to solve the problem and make the customer and the developers happy. | 
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Why Scrum Team Members Need to Feel Safe to Admit Their FailuresSteve Vaughn writes on why team members need to feel comfortable when speaking openly—about failures as well as successes—during a standup meeting. People will only speak when they feel safe, and once agile team members feel safe to fail, they can begin to improve. | 
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Book Review: To Sell Is HumanSteve 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. | 
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Rethinking Typical Project Management Approaches"Don't work on projects, work on products!" is a cry often heard in the agile community. But if you have a team pulled together to support an ongoing product, it doesn't make sense to use typical project management techniques. Maybe projects aren't the problem—their organizational structures are. | 
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