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Agile Product Management: The Concept Phase

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Academic research is incredibly inefficient when it comes to producing products and services. Grad students, post-docs and professors work on “problems” that some collection of graybeards has deemed “interesting.” Their “solutions” — sometimes successful, sometimes not — […]

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What’s the value of Agile out of the box?

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I often meet peers who ask what Agile practices Orthogonal utilizes. From the outside, we pretty much use all of XP’s practices. However, if you take a deeper look we do some things a little […]

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Fake Agile: All of the Symptoms, but not the Disease

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  This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. For any software development professional who has contracted out from time to time, this story must seem familiar. You interview and are told that they practice agile development. Once you show up at the […]

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Agile Development and Play: Understanding the Value

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. My Addiction I’m addicted to TED talks. There have been many nights where I’ve stayed up way too late watching them. For those who are unaware, TED is a yearly conference where world leaders and […]

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Building a High Performance Agile Team

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. One thing about agile teams is that they constantly strive to get better. In my experience, an Agile team takes 2-4 iterations to work through the forming stage. By iteration 10 or so the team […]

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Design Documentation

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. A few years ago, I worked on a team that was trying to move the business side away from the waterfall method into more of an agile approach so there wouldn’t be such a disconnect […]

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Real Testing Example, Part Two

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. What with upward of two people saying nice things about last week’s post, I’ve decided to keep going with part two of a look at some real testing code. Most code-heavy tutorials show the code […]

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A Real Testing Example

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. As sort-of promised in last week’s post, I’m going to work through a real-world test example, with an eye toward explaining how and why I tested the way I did. Hopefully, I’ll be able to […]

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Agile Fundamentals: The Feedback Loop

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. — John Wooden photo credit: mister b 1138 A few weeks ago I had a discussion with some colleagues on the adoption of Agile […]

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Adjusting RPF Processes for Agile Development

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Agile development, when done right, results in better software at a lower cost. More and more companies are coming to this conclusion, but most are struggling with how to adjust their RFP and Governance processes […]

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The Return of the Cucumber

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I mentioned last week that the RubyMine post was replacing what I had meant to write about. Well, this week we finally get to it… It’s been about ten weeks since I wrote about Cucumber […]

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Cucumber Rocks - But it's not a replacement for unit tests

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I admit that cucumber is awesome. It apparently was the big thing at Rails Conf this year. I love that my BA can write the requirements, I can throw them into a feature file, and […]

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