Category Archives: Continuous Integration
Making Sprint Retrospectives Really Effective (Part 4 of 4)
Once a Scrum team has discussed and developed a SMART action plan in a Sprint Retrospective session (as described in Part 3 of this blog series), I recommend capturing all the results from the Retrospective session and SMART actions into … Continue reading
Making Sprint Retrospectives Really Effective (Part 3 of 4)
Developing the SMART action plan: In Part 2 of this blog series, I presented the details of areas A, B and C of the Sprint Retrospective table covered in Part 1 of this blog series. Reaching consensus on the Top … Continue reading
Making Sprint Retrospectives Really Effective (Part 2 of 4)
Reaching team consensus on the Top 3 factors that worked well and the Top 3 most problematic factors: Before the Sprint Retrospective session, the ScrumMaster should collect each Scrum team member’s individual Top 3 observations in both categories listed below: … Continue reading
Making Sprint Retrospectives Really Effective (Part 1 of 4)
The Agile Scrum Framework is based on empirical process control and requires transparency of the process and work product, and ability to inspect so the team can adapt to help it achieve their goals. There are several feedback loops built … Continue reading
Continuous Integration and Testing: Mere Child’s Play
My youngest son loves to play the game “Mouse Trap”, and last Christmas vacation, I had the opportunity to play many rounds of it with him. The object of the game is to build the mouse trap contraption piece by … Continue reading
Why so Agile?
I’ve said it before, and here I am saying it again – Change is hard. The largest obstacle to any organization looking to adopt more agile development practices is that transition – we are creatures of habit and now we … Continue reading
Changing Agile Roles – The Programmers
Many people don’t see that there are many changes to the programmers’ life when it comes to moving to agile software development. I personally see quite a few changes. Some of these changes are basic, like moving to test driven … Continue reading