Posts in the Category: Agile
By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on April 2nd, 2009
Games are a fun, interactive, effective way to teach. A dose of competition mixed with social interaction keeps people engaged. You learn by doing and reflecting on the experience. Powerpoint, your time is over.
Until recently, …
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on March 16th, 2009
Agile, Python, QA, Rational Unified Process and Ruby on Rails. IT folk in Sault Ste. Marie got a smorgasborg of technology, tools and processes at the Innovation Centre’s Software Development Best Practices Workshop. I was …
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on January 19th, 2009
If airplanes were made by Scrum / Agile teams (via DikiyKaban)
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on January 16th, 2009
Twelve (12) emerging best practice for adding user experience work to agile software development: The first time I’ve read about successful patterns of UX Agile work. Pass around.
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on January 16th, 2009
Agility in Experience Design Process – What’s Next? (Part 1): No one seems to have figured out best how to do mostly design / UX work in Agile process. Tim Richards offers ideas on how to be more Agile
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on January 9th, 2009
I’ve noticed some debate lately about Lean vs. Agile. Machiel Groeneveld covers the debate well on his blog.
My perspective is that Lean is within the Agile family, and makes Scrum more effective by focusing …
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on December 5th, 2008
Recently I had the opportunity to share about my work passion, Agile and Scrum at a local IT group luncheon. I was pleasantly surprised at the level of interest and depth of questions. Organizer John …
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on September 9th, 2008
Agile definition and value illustrated. View full size poster
I’m really looking forward to Plone Conf 2008 for many reasons, one of which is presenting on a topic I am passionate about, namely …
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on August 21st, 2008
This post is an assemble of notes from sessions at Agile 2008, including Paving the Way for Agile Testing, Expanding Agile Horizons, The Five Dimensions of Systems by Mary Poppendieck, Natural Laws …
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By Gerry Kirk
Posted in - Agile on August 20th, 2008
These are notes and video taken from the highly entertaining Agile 2008 session Effective Pairing: Good, Bad and the Ugly. Thanks to Ryan Hoegg, Lasse Koskela, Dave Nicolette, Brett …
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