Tag Archives: Agile

Scaling Agile – Why Scrum isn’t enough

Agile Best Practices – Scaling Best Practices for large organizations While most teams can start using agile practices, such as Scrum and XP, they often run into hurtles when adoption is extended to other parts of the organization. Most often … Continue reading

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What is an agile methodology anyways?

Agile methodologies is a collection of lightweight software development approaches (some would call them “best practices”) that evolved in the mid-1990s and early 2000s in reaction to heavy weight waterfall processes common in most organizations. Common agile methodologies include Scrum, … Continue reading

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Picking an Agile Coach – Lessons from the Trenches

Picking an Agile Coach is often a trying task for most organizations. What is an Agile Coach and what qualities make a good one. These are just some of the common questions most organizations have. As it takes time to … Continue reading

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Retrospectives What are they and how do they help teams adopt Agile practices?

Retrospectives – “What purpose do they server?” Many small to medium size projects teams have successfully adopted agile practices such as Scrum but some agile teams do fail.  Often as not they fail because of factors outside their control but … Continue reading

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How are each Work items estimated and do these estimates relate to each other?

Written by Reedy Feggins, IBM RTC 3.0 uses three different attributes to help teams determine which work items should be done during the sprint / iteration. These attributes are: Priority, Ranking and Complexity which are covered in detail in the … Continue reading

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How are Epics, Stories and Tasks related to each other?

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Written by Reedy Feggins, IBM Work items are the fundamental mechanism in Rational Team Concert (RTC) used to coordinate, and track development tasks.[1] RTC provides several out-of-the-box work items types including Epic, Story, Task and Defect.  Each work item has … Continue reading

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What guidance would you give when for assigning priorities to stories in RTC?

What is the default priority generally assigned? It was suggested to me that the default should be medium. We may need to provide some guidance on what constitutes a high, medium versus a low priority ranking. Yes we recommend using … Continue reading

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