The agile movement is now dead with the final blow dealt by McKinsey recently promoting an “agile transformation office”.
During my years as a coder, business analyst and technology consultant, I have heard many a manager or business owner complain about their on-staff developer. I have even sometimes heard them referred to as a “single point of failure.” At that moment, I know that I am entering a political minefield. My years of experience alert me to the fact that if someone in power thinks their developer is a single point of failure, then most likely the developer is not being properly managed.
Agile software development is an iterative approach to technology design and development.
I was recently asked to engage in a debate over whether or not there are deadlines in agile. There were a few folks involved in the debate and the predominant perspective seemed to be that true agile efforts have no external deadlines - all deadlines are self-imposed by the team in the form of an iteration commitment or a scope negotiation with the Product Owner.
This article describes a model for writing engaging user stories that can be used to assist with team productivity, product quality, and user experience goals.
Scrum vs Kanban: core principles, similarities and differences. See schedule and cadence in both methods, release approaches, roles and attitude towards changes
The three key positions in a software development team are developer, tester, and operations. Required tasks among these positions are continuously reinvented.
Many tech businesses rely on a mix of process and platitudes to define how they work. Instead, they should focus on the tactics that inform their processes.
Making agile work at scale is ultimately about changing behavior, not just for the individual contributors involved, but also for the leaders.
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Extreme Programming promotes small releases through continuous integration(CI) and other extreme programming practices.
Software development methodology points to a set method for solving information problems using a programming language. This field covers precise methods that outlook the stages of analyzing, designing, developing, testing, documenting, implementing, and evaluating within the convoluted sphere of software engineering.
You know that feeling when you work really hard on something for really long and it feels like nobody really notices? Hacker Noon’s Annual Tech Industry Awards, the 2020 Noonies, are here to help with that.
Software engineering metrics help daily stand-up meetings to be more productive for the team. They can become tedious or irrelevant for many developers when they frequently exceed the fifteen minutes time box or even sound like a work report.
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Looking for Software Development Methodologies for your next project? Check out the updated list of some of the best methodologies with its pros and cons.
It could be tricky to prioritise hundreds of user stories in spreadsheet or Jira, you need to know which of them are the highest value features are so that you can build them next. An advanced technique to organise stories is more preferred than a messy product backlog. This is how a user story map can help in a simple way to tell story and break it down into parts.
If you aren't an educated and/or experienced tech person, a lot of question marks may pop up in your mind while looking at these two terms: Lean and Agile. Even if you are technically proficient, you may wonder what the difference between these two really is.
Learn when to over-engineer a project to ensure a successful rewrite and high velocity with the Jobs to Be Done framework and when not to do such a thing
The agile software development model means releasing software faster, but that doesn't mean you can skip out on quality.
Agile Software Development can give companies versatility and help them navigate through change and complexities of the software space, improving efficiency.
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Agile is such a popular philosophy which more and more development teams use. Actually, they use Agile methods such as Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal Clear etc. But, why is Agile so popular? Let's find out!
It is important for project team members to be on the same page and share the same vision. Agile methodologies such as scrum make it convenient for team members to communicate and collaborate. An iterative approach for software development, offered by the Scrum framework, provides the much-needed flexibility for startups or established businesses to create a product that is meaningful for the user and serves a purpose. In this blog, we share insights into key steps involved in agile software development, benefits, and top agile software development companies.
Everyone wants to go Agile today. Teams want to put the user in the centre of their product development process while building products. After all, you are building the product for your users, right?
Imagine the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius all combined into a one-pager. That's the Agile manifesto for you...
Microservices-based projects are a great idea to deliver products in less time and with great flexibility/agility.
Product managers have a dangerous role because of one oft-missed truth: Decisions about what to build are far more costly than most teams realize.
This article introduces how you can define executable Service Level Objectives in code; and why this is such a powerful technique for SRE.
Discovery phase, first & important step in software development. We take a look at how to run a discovery for your project with key benefits.
Lean production is not a new concept. It comes from the manufacturing industry and was polished by Toyota in the seventies. However, Lean manufacturing principles turned out to be so practical and universal that they can be used to create innovations in other industries as well. In the Information Technology (IT) sphere, they are frequently used with the Six Sigma Principles, and in this article, we will explain what each principle means for Lean software development.
Agile can be defined as the ability to move quickly and easily. However, for those in tech they might associate agile with something else entirely. Agile methodology is a popular framework for managing software development projects. More specifically, it is a style of project management where you develop a product in short cycles (or sprints- see above image), providing flexibility for revisions as necessary. It requires constant improvement through these iterations of testing and reflection. A finished product is better than a perfect project.
Moreover, the duty of code quality can slowly be forgotten in the developers’ minds as they know their work would be tested either way.
Software developers are mostly happy to work by themselves at night in dark rooms. And they turn coffee, cola and pizza into code.
Use weekly project plans to improve your agile team's ability to plan and reason about the future.
In the agile development methodology, the velocity of testing holds the key to delivering the best quality software within the stipulated budget and time constr
Recognizing that you have technical debt is easy. And if you don’t recognize it already, one of your engineers will likely tell you:)
Waterfall vs Agile
Daily standups feel like a waste of time. I will teach you two new techniques the will make every minute count.
Process gates are a common leadership trap you may not even realize you’re making: adding steps that require someone to do something. They often backfire!
All too often, I see founders in the blockchain space making the same mistake; a lack of human-centric design. I’m talking about intimately involving who...
Few industry trends have been as disruptive as the Agile software development revolution. But the same wave of innovation that’s allowed dev teams to get more value into the hands of users faster has left the majority of non-technical teams across the business reeling.
Let's learn about Agile Development via these 57 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon.
Agile software development means different things to different people. In this post, we will define what agile software development is with a simple analogy that a five-year-old can understand. The analogy we will use is as straightforward as serving an apple to 4 kids. Yes, it will be that easy, let’s get started:
I stumbled upon a thread recently where the question was posed, “What are some common mistakes when refactoring code?”
A deep-dive into iteration planning and predicting how long something will take
It's a challenging time for teams and organizations that have suddenly jolted to working remotely. For startups and larger organizations, helping their teams with a generous dose of empathy, to enable productivity, is key.
Agile Methodology is the underlying ideology for how software delivery should take place.
There are too many agile meetings that tech teams use. Save by adopting the essential types of agile meetings I use on my teams.
How do you measure how well your engineering team is doing and how do you find the bottlenecks where you can improve things the most?
As far as software development is concerned, We have two types of methodologies: Agile or Non-Agile. So, let us get brief information about both methodologies.
Do you want to prioritize your tasks? Explore the blog and get the list of 10 most popular prioritization techniques and methods of agile product development.
Scrum is the most popular Agile framework today (56% of all Agile teams use Scrum).
...for Better Code Separation
If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile.
The software development life cycle is about producing high-quality software promptly.
If Jira seems disappointing to you and your team, in this quite lengthy article you’ll discover the best Jira alternatives.
