Agile Blog

The last part in our three part series about agile development and contracts will provide a glimpse into the future by looking at how thought leaders have managed contracts to foster cooperation between companies and to create superior performance in complex environments:

Are rigid contracts needed for protection so that companies will not take advantage of each other? Actually there is another way Read more »

Continuing our three part series about contracts and agile software development, here is part 2 about how to handle the fixed price environment that most of us work in today:

If you are an agile development organization, but you do actually have to submit a bid for a fixed price, fixed scope contract anyway, Read more »

When presenting the agile approach to audiences new to the ideas, one comment is by far the most common. It is: “How can we do this, we have to work with fixed scope, fixed price contracts?”

We will cover this question in a three part newsletter, Read more »

What do you think the one activity is that takes up the most of the time for software developers today?

In a draft of a new book, Amr Elssamadisy presents this hypothetical experiment that allows us to figure this out: Read more »

A very powerful, but one of the most non-intuitive agile practices is pair programming. Before one has tried to get good at this, it seems unbelievable that it is actually is better and more efficient for two people to work side by side on the same problem than having two developers working individually.

If you want to get some inspiration and courage to try pair programming, Read more »