In my last post about Introducing Agile Practices to Manage a Remote Development Team I described the issues we faced with our existing development process and provided a step-by-step overview of the agile practices we implemented. In this post, I want to introduce you to the concept of User Stories and how you can use … Continue reading User Stories – Making Sure Your Customers Get The First-class Seats
Category: Kanban & Agile
Get Your Team Working Together
Let's face it, compared to other engineering disciplines software development is just coming out of the stone age. Heck, I'm sure I'll get a lot of flak for even suggesting that software development is an engineering discipline (though I have to admit the way a lot of developers go about their work, calling it engineering … Continue reading Get Your Team Working Together
Introducing Agile Practices to Manage a Remote Development Team Series
What would you say if I told you that you can double multiply the output of your development team while simultaneously increasing quality? Let me show you how I made this happen in a small team a couple of months ago. When I joined autoplenum.de in October 2007, roughly 10 months after its founding, "phase … Continue reading Introducing Agile Practices to Manage a Remote Development Team Series
6 Bad Ways of Conveying Urgent Tasks (And How to Fight Them)
Sometimes, due to the high urgency of issues, the owners of tasks are not patient enough to use your standardized way of filing a ticket in your issue tracking system. Instead, they resort to various ways of conveying the new task to you or your team, disrupting your seamless ticket flow. Here's a list of … Continue reading 6 Bad Ways of Conveying Urgent Tasks (And How to Fight Them)
Continuous Integration Helps Find and Kill Bugs
Today, automated test builds are a goal of most development shops, and Martin Fowler's article on Continuous Integration provides an excellent overview about the major aspects. Regardless of where your team is on the path to achieving this goal, here are a few hints how to ease your way. The committer pulls test coverage out … Continue reading Continuous Integration Helps Find and Kill Bugs
The Importance Of Having Seamless Ticket Flow
I don’t know about you, but I want to organize my day's work as it suits me. Sure, there are the inescapable meetings, which block part of your day, but the rest of it (hopefully most of it) should be under your own control. Issue Tracking as Pull System To enable developers and sysadmins to … Continue reading The Importance Of Having Seamless Ticket Flow
