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ScrumBut

I worked on my first XP project with John Boal. He recently did a post on ScrumBut . I have mentioned ScrumBut and Scrummerfall before, but this is a good, quick read with a few good tips. A lot of the concepts carry over to XP as well. I'll add something
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Acceptance Testing Guidance

On Monday, Grigori and I kicked off a new project: Acceptance Testing Guidance Actually, we kicked off a pre-project planning project. In two to three weeks, we need to decide if there is enough demand for guidance on acceptance testing to warrant a real

Ideal Days Aren't...

Mitch has an interesting post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/mitchl/default.aspx ) that talks about ideal developer days, and he hits the nail on the head... There are no ideal developer days.... Ever. Planning and estimating using them is kidding yourself,
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Agile 2006 Follow-up

The conference was good. The weather was way too hot, but that is another issue entirely. I attended a number of good sessions and a few dull ones. There was not really anything in the middle. There was also not a lot in the middle as far as experience.

Another Agile blog at Microsoft

I know that there a quite a few agilists at Microsoft. In my reading over the weekend, I saw this blog ( Only Passionate People Win ) by Young Joo, and I had to comment. Here are a few of his posts on agile topics with my comments: Abusing Agile Amen.
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Bad Agile Definitions

A friend of mine (John Boal) has created a site ( The Committee for UN-SCRUM Activities ) where he has the ultimate bad definition for the term "Agile": Agile 1. The ability to use popular buzzwords like "sprint" and "scrum" without having to really change
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How do you keep your daily stand-up on track?

This question came up recently, "How do you keep your daily stand-up on track?" I answered by sharing what worked for me. The way teams I have been on (and teams I have helped coach) kept things tracking was we agreed to the rules: Everyone must answer
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p&p Team Space Update

While we are still not moved in to the new space, a few folks are using their laptops to camp and it try out. I acquired a few candid pictures (thanks Steve Elston) to show off the new area. The above picture shows one of the largest workrooms in the

p&p Team Space

Today, I only have time for a short note. Rather than do anything technical, I figured I let people in on what is going on in p&p. A while back, Darrell Snow mentioned the new team-oriented collaboration space that the patterns & practices team
 
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