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The Complete History of Agile Software Development

Agilemania

In the early 1990s, PC computing began to rise in organizations, but software development faced a hurdle. At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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Real Cross-functional Teams for Creating Real and Better Products

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Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.

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Thinking By Sprinting: What Cognitive Science Tells Us About Why Scrum Works

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Software development is (generally speaking) very complex. Nevertheless, the motto of software development is often ‘first solve the problem, then write the code’. A powerful example of the above can be witnessed in termite colonies (Camazine, 2003). This limits our ability to deal with complex problems.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

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We know from research in teams that even light conflict has a negative effect on team productivity (De Dreu & Weingart, 2003). Analysis of fault generation caused by stress during software development. In Achieving Quality in Software (pp. burnout relationship in software development teams. Furuyama, T.,

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

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This corresponds with research on autonomous teams, as well as principles of Agile software development. 40 years of storming: a historical review of Tuckman’s model of small group development. And a group of friends, or a family, can also be more or less cohesive. But we obviously also find cohesive groups in the workplace.

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What Makes A Developer Culture?

Scrum.org

Agile software development started with developers. Agile software development was started by developers. Way back in 2003, I set up the first continuous integration server at NowOnline. These days, it seems to be more about Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners, and other “process roles”.

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Can We Still be Agile?

Leading Answers

We should also remember when the agile principles were developed in 2001, video conferencing was not as straightforward or familiar as it is today. It was not until 2003 that Skype and other applications provided widely used and low-cost options for getting some face time. First, Type-1 teams are fully collocated.

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