Agile FAQs

-ShriKant Vashishtha(http://svashishtha.wordpress.com/about/)

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Based on Agile NCR 2009 Inputs

Pair programming is waste of resources???

ORHow to Buy Time for Pair Programming???

ORHow about Pair Programming in Fixed Bid Projects?

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A Day of A Solo Programmer

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A Still from Pair Programming

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Pair Programming != Pair of Typing

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AllProgrammingTasksAreEasyOnceYouveSolvedThem

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Where are the Metrics of those Old Days?

Why do I need metrics?

It’s the Age of Open Kitchen

Transparent and Always Visible Maven Dashboard

No Place for Heroism (Exponential vs Gradual Growth)

Team of Individual Heroes

Sprint Success Matters Than Individual Heroism

Risky to Start with Big and Complex Projects

Large Projects are Inherently Difficult to Execute

Other Side: Lack of Team Communication forum

Other Side: Delayed Integration

Agile: Small Teams, Less Communication Loss

Agile: Continuous Integration

How to Plan for Difficult to Estimate Tasks?

Break the User Stories

Pre-planning and Planning-2 Do Help!!!

Create a Prototype or POC First

How to Handle Unplanned Work?

A Bucket of Sprint Time/Velocity Allocated to Unplanned Work

A Lot of Unplanned Work: Use Kanban

Agile vs Fixed Bid Projects?

Irony of Fixed Bid - Fixed Scope - Resulting Change Requests

….Resulting Longer and Non-prioritized List of Requirements

Resultant : Mess Compromise on Quality

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