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We have some spaces left on our Mike Cohn Agile courses which are running in October.    Agile Estimating and Planning – Oct 18th 2010 London   Certified ScrumMaster – Oct 19th -20th 2010 London   Succeeding with Agile – Oct 21st  -22nd 2010 London   For more info email agile@emc.com  

We are hosting the London .Net User Group next week where Ian Cooper will be speaking about Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) Date: Weds 9th June 2010 Time: 6:30pm onwards Venue: EMC Consulting, Notcutt House, 36 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9EU Abstract: Behavior Driven Development (or BDD) is an Agile software development technique ...

We have a few spaces left on the Agile Courses in June with Mike Cohn.    http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/   Agile Estimating and Planning                     21 ...

Let's be clear on one point. You can't do Agile. You can only be Agile. What causes some confusion I think is that in order to be Agile, you often need to do some of the things you're currently doing now differently. But if you really want to succeed at being or becoming Agile, you really need to first conquer how you're thinking. Agile ...

Recently I was doing some pair Kanban Coaching with Karl Scotland, and as is not uncommon during these types of engagements, we got out of the classroom and “took a tour of the Gemba”. Whilst the tremendous value that an accurate Kanban board can add to the effectiveness of such a coaching exercise should probably be the topic of another blog ...

I often talk with teams about why software projects fail, yet we have answers. We have modern engineering practices that give us faster technical feedback, reducing technical and integration issues and resulting in higher quality products.  We have ways to work more effectively with our customers, reducing the risk that we deliver the wrong ...

EMC Consulting partners with Mike Cohn to run Agile courses in the UK.  Mike is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and has has over twenty years of experience in a variety of environments and specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance ...

Say what you like about the iPad, but it’s got people talking, and thinking. The effect on the world, to me, is almost more interesting than the device itself. Whilst reading this well considered piece, I was immediately struck by the following statement (emphasis mine) The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer ...

It’s always been possible to descope work in the Scrum for Team System template. But the method employed in Version 2.2 whilst functional, was quite fiddly, overly manual and not very “Scrummy”. When building 3.0 we took the opportunity to revamp the way in which it worked and better utilise the power of the Event Service (something you can see ...

The Scrum for Team System process template includes reports to help manage the progress of project.  The onus is on the team to run - by opening them - and review them.  This is the default behaviour of the Team Foundation Server which our process template built against, however as the Team Foundation Server platform uses SQL Server ...