Agile and TMS

A transactive memory system is what allows a team to know who knows what.

What is transactive memory? How does it impact agile work? How do you improve it?

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Agile Requirements and the Agile Backlog

Are backlog items and requirements the same thing?

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Changes as Objects

http://www.mendeley.com/research/extreme-programming-agile-processes-software-engineering/ In this article the authorsn suggests that many of the problems associated with changes in agile software development can be managed by treating the changes as ‘first-class objects’. Sounds complicated to me. What do you think?

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Did Agile Ruin your Life?

Did agile ruin your life? These pair programmers do no seem that concerned.

Daniel Markham has written a rant about how many people feel that Agile has “ruined their lives”. Basically, he is saying that to these people Agile is just a new name for snake oil. Agile coaches are nothing but scamsters. The books they write are nothing but positively biased stories…

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