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When the annual deliver:Agile event was canceled earlier this year, I was sad.
The program team — Cheryl Hammond, Amr Noaman, Amitai Schleier — and I had put together a…
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Cat Swetel
Cat is an engineering manager with experience applying Agile and Lean principles in a variety of settings: from startups to large enterprises, warehouses to Web, etc. She is passionate about increasing diversity in tech. In her leisure time, Cat enjoys making jokes about Bitcoin, hiking, and reading feminist literature.
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‘Tis the season…for code freeze!
Although the prevailing Agile wisdom (and much of the research, for example see the 2016 State of DevOps Report) tells us code freezes …
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Woody Zuill, widely credited with discovering mob programming while working at Hunter Industries, describes mobbing (or ensemble programming, as the practice is also known) as…
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Around this time last year, I tweeted, “XP is not dead; it’s just not where you left it.” I was tired of hearing longtime XP practitioners complaining about the decline (or ev…
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The processes that have grown up around “Agile” are all capable of being spread too thin, of being understood so poorly that they deliver only mediocre results at best. They c…
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For the past 20 years, Agile Alliance has been the leading non-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting Agile ways of working. This conversation–the 5th in the s…
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In our May 2021 event celebrating 20 years of Agile technical practices, we rediscovered some forgotten facts from the early days of Agile. We were reminded that security prof…
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Conway’s Law states an organization will design systems that reflect that organization’s communication structure. In other words, how we make a product manifests in the produc…
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In this event, we turn towards the future of XP and Agile technical practices in a panel with some expert practitioners who are moving the industry forward in a variety of way…
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’Tis (almost) the season...for code freezes and hot fixes! During the winter holidays and shopping season, many companies institute a code freeze — halting all production depl…
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As a result of the pandemic, many technologists are unexpectedly job searching. The process of seeking a new role can be unsettling and anxiety-inducing. The recruiting proces…
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There is nothing quite like the feeling of mob programming: everyone seated around a single screen, all oriented toward the same goal, problem solving together. The practice s…
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This session will outline the most common metrics used for understanding flow and impediments in software development and test functions. By attending this session you will ha…
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