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Accountability in Scrum

Doug Seven wonders accountability issue with Scrum . And yag wants to discuss this further. If you read follow up comment Doug posted for his entry, you can easily discover that the team is still in learning phase. Folks. Scrum is not a magic bullet. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 22, 2006 3:49 PM by youngjoo | 3 Comments
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Yag moves on and why I believe our paths will cross again

Yag moves on . He used to be the Group Manager of Visual Studio Data team before the team got merged into Visual Basic product unit and became a part of Visual Studio Professional Data team. Although I only spent a couple of months in Visual Studio Data Read More...
Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 12:16 PM by youngjoo | 2 Comments

How can Visual Studio, Office or Windows teams adopt Agile?

Scoble ponders about how Agile methodologies such as Scrum can be applied to Visual Studio, Office or Windows teams in his Another test of "is Microsoft listening" post. Scrum is everywhere now. Even Scoble talks about it. I do firmly believe that Agile Read More...
Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 11:43 AM by youngjoo | 2 Comments
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Make sure your team is jelled before starting Agile

Agile Development relies heavily on human interactions. User stories intentionally leave out details so that people can talk. Team members sit together so that they can interact with each other always. It emphasizes human side of software development. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:05 AM by youngjoo | 2 Comments
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Book: Refactoring Databases

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage Addison Wesley Signature Series If you know who Scott Ambler is, then you definitely want to read this latest book he wrote. If you don't know who Scott Ambler Read More...
Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 5:22 PM by youngjoo | 0 Comments

One step at a time...

When I told the team at my previous company that I was joining Microsoft, there were few who showed their disappointments. I was their Agile cheer-leader and they couldn't believe that I chose Microsoft. Why move all the way across the country (NY -> Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:42 PM by youngjoo | 0 Comments

Starting Agile? Learn basics first!

One of mistakes people often make when starting out Agile Development is not learning basics. It sounds so obvious. But people miss it very often. Many people who are interested in Agile Development or any kind of Software Developmet Life Cycle (SDLC) Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:41 PM by youngjoo | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Developer Division's Development Processes

Developer Division @ Microsoft is responsible for Visual Studio and it's the division I belong to. Following two Channel 9 videos will give you some peek at the development processes used by the division. These processes are new to the division. Trying Read More...
Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 3:39 PM by youngjoo | 2 Comments

You still do not get it!

I wrote about how frustrurated I was with people who abuse the word agile . It's a big problem right now. A lot more people are learning about Agile Development and unless people understand what the real values are, it is possible that this whole Agile Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:38 PM by youngjoo | 3 Comments
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Abusing Agile

I have noticed that more and more people in software business are abusing the word agile . As a person with deep passion around Agile Development , whenever I hear a word agile from someone, my head turns immediately. But I often realize that the word Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:36 PM by youngjoo | 2 Comments
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