Agile Mindset
“Wake up in the morning” Game
A Quick Fun Way to Understand the Basic Concept of Iterative Incremental Development A fundamental aspect of Agility is incremental and iterative development. It’s so
Agile Mindset
The Critical Difference Between Backlog and To Do (Kanban, Scrum)
When we build a kanban board to manage our work (either practicing Kanban or Scrum) we usually create a Backlog list (usually the first column) and a To Do list (following the Backlog). I’ve noticed that many times the separation between the two is artificial and people don’t always understand the critical difference between the two. I’d like to discuss it here.
Agile Mindset
The challenges of testers & developers working together in a cross-functional Agile team
One of the significant changes while moving to Agile teams is that testers and developers are now part of the same team.
This change introduces great advantages, as well as some challenges.
The immediate impact is that the testers participate in the Scrum ceremonies and get a better exposure to the product under development, its status, and its fragility. They can therefore detect better potential areas for defect finding, gain better sync for when they’ll get a drop for testing, and can better utilize their plans.
Agile Leadership
Improving Teamwork Through Experiments
A good way to improve how a team works together is to try to run experiments for collaboration. We’ve listed here a set of experiments you may want to try, depending on where your team is in the journey for better teamwork. Each section has a description, a goal for improvement and then the set of experiments that may help achieving the goal.
Agile
Elbit Agile/Scrum Agile Israel Case Study – Gil Ari
Continuous deployment is a process that encourages developers to push new code to production whenever they can. In this presentation, Itai will explain the principles of continuous deployment and will show how Outbrain can deploy code more than 20 times a day while serving recommendations to top publishers (including USA Today, iVillage, Boston.com, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, TheStreet, The Boston Globe, and Slate. Hebrew: Ynet, Haaretz, TheMarker, Globes, City mouse, JPost and more).
Getting Started
Scrum Reading List
Scrum Reading List User Story Primer by Dean Leffingwell The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master | Scrum.org How to improve your Daily Scrum? Scrum
Agile
Agile at FiftyOne – Ben Peer
Going Agile via the Fast Lane – How FiftyOne.com switched from quarterly releases to 2 weeks Scrum and Kanban.
Ben Peer shares the story of FiftyOne.com’s transition in the last year. Starting with Scrum, involving the whole team in true inspect and adapt, evolving to Kanban/ScrumBan, evolving team formation and definition of done, adding Agile Testing approaches including ATDD. In parallel, tight collaboration with a remote Product Management team, and usage of an electronic highly visual Kanban board. Ben will discuss the benefits, the challenges and how the team dealt with them, and will provide recommendations to others considering this journey.
Agile Israel
Informatica B2B Case Study Lecture in Agile Israel
How we do Agile without saying the word ‘Scrum’
During the last 9 months, Informatica’s B2B business unit transitioned to an agile product definition and development mode. Specifically, we selected Kanban as an agile development methodology. In this talk, I will cover our lessons from using Kanban for enterprise software product development, including:
The impact of a cross-geography organization.
Kanban board structure and changes to the board as a learning process.
The use of data that is collected from the board.
Why we decided to introduce the notion of iterations to our Kanban implementation.
Agile
RSA Agile/Scrum Case Study
SCRUM implementation – The good, the bad and the ugly – RSA Case Study View Slides Session Abstract: In this talk, I will focus on
Agile Israel
Scrum and XP – Beyond the Trenches
Scrum and XP from the Trenches (by Henrik Kniberg) translated to Hebrew
As announced in AgileIsrael 2011, the AgileSparks team has translated Henrik Kniberg’s “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” to Hebrew.
Hebrew now joins the other 12 languages this great book has been translated.
