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Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”
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Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

by Leslie Ekas, Scott Will
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
7h 58m
English
IBM Press
Content preview from Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Breakthrough

Early in my experience with agile, a development team that I was managing was lucky enough to make a breakthrough with bullpens that transformed its behavior almost immediately. In fact, this breakthrough was so profound for the team that it changed my reflexive, waterfall-oriented thinking permanently. The team I was managing was having communication problems. A project consultant, Stan Rifkin, suggested we try bullpens to fix these challenges.

But let me back up and describe how we got to this recommendation. The first development team I managed that adopted agile got all the basics down quickly. Our daily standups became essential; we defined the work we planned to complete each iteration; and we demonstrated new functionality ...

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