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	Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban: Which Is Right for You? Slideshow Agile is on everyone’s minds today, as more and more organizations are eager to reap the benefits of rapid iterations using customer-centric approaches. Organizations tend to run to Scrum first because it is the most recognized agile framework. But is Scrum always the right answer for a...	Heidi Araya
	Step-by-Step Guide to Leading a Large-Scale Agile Transformation Slideshow A few years ago everyone wanted to know how to convince their executives to go agile. Today, executives are asking their teams how they'll make the transformation. We have made significant progress changing the hearts and minds of senior leadership, but executives now demand a greater...	Mike Cottmeyer
	The Business of Agile: Better, Faster, Cheaper Slideshow Ryan Ripley relates that during his last agile transformation project, a key stakeholder asked, “Why are we adopting agile?” Ryan talked about increasing quality, delivering software sooner, and fostering a more collaborative relationship with business partners. After a few moments...	Ryan Ripley
	The Three Pillars Approach to an Agile Testing Strategy Slideshow Far too often, organizations focus solely on the development teams and their technical practices as their agile adoption strategy. And then there’s the near constant focus on acquiring development tools. Often the testing activity and the testing teams are left behind in agile adoption, or...	Bob Galen
	Your Agile Team Needs a Therapist Slideshow Imagine you’re on an agile development team—and something feels weird. People disagree constantly, and when they finally do agree, no one commits to deliver the solution. Vocal team members dominate the conversation. You don’t trust your teammates. They don’t trust you. This isn’t a team.	Robb Pieper
	Five XP Practices for Agile Development Slideshow David Bernstein says that the core of Extreme Programming (XP) is comprised of five development practices: automating the build for continuously integrating software as it is written, collaborating with team members through pair programming, practicing agile design skills that enable...	David Bernstein
	The Lean Agile Portfolio Slideshow Agile practices continue to improve as organizations move forward with adoption and adaption. However, as they move forward, they often run into daunting challenges—coordinating projects with highly complex requirements and interdependencies; navigating highly political environments...	Jamie Mades
	Testing and Measurement in DevOps: Find Solutions—Not More Problems Slideshow The promise of DevOps is to deliver new features faster following today’s best practices. However, blindly automating the delivery pipeline by installing Jenkins, Chef, and Docker without adapting test approaches will cause a great number of deployments to fail. While the tester’s role...	Andreas Grabner
	Agile Requirements—From Breadth to Depth Slideshow Requirements elicitation and documentation can be frustrating in an agile process. Some interpret the Agile Manifesto statement “working software over comprehensive documentation” to mean that no requirements documentation is warranted because the code documents the requirements. Others...	Ken Pugh
	Removing the Silos: When Agile, Lean, and DevOps Aren’t Enough Slideshow Your organization has adopted some combination of agile, lean, and DevOps practices, yet you have a sinking feeling that it’s not working the way everyone hoped it would. You’re wondering if it’s because you work for a very large organization and all this talk about small, cross-functional...	Betty Zakheim

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