Wisdom from Agile Sprint Knowledge Life experiences creates lots of Data. Experiences we have everyday generates warehouses of Data in our mind. Our five senses records our experiences as life Data that is stored as Raw Information that aids in all the decisions we make...
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Monthly Archives: December 2013
The Sprint Velocity, Increment and Burn Metrics
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The TMD Sprint Metrics If you were to decide to sail from San Diego, California to Honolulu, Hawaii and all you did was point your sailboat towards Hawaii you would miss the island of Oahu by thousand of miles. To successfully navigate...
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Estimating Development Task Hours
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The TMD Task Hours Estimation Process Once the selected Sprint Backlog User Story have been assigned a “Level of Effort” story point that represents the “Complexity of Development” then the story point value must be estimated into development hours. The development responsibilities...
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Managing the Agile Backlogs
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The TMD Agile Product and Sprint Backlogs There are two Agile Methodology repositories that manage the task items required for successful development: The Agile Product Backlog and the Sprint Backlog. They are similar in nature but very different in their Agile Methodology purpose....
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Technical Debt Management
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What is Technical Debt? It is estimated by some that 80% of all costs associated with Software Development is NOT in the development and deployment of Version One but in the maintenance of the application throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Technical...
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The Code Development Directive: TDD
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What is the TMD Code Development Directive? The Modern Developer Code Development Directive is the use of Test Driven Development (TDD) as the development methodology of choice. What is the Modern Developer’s TDD Definition? The Modern Developer’s TDD Definition is the practice of defining...
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The Sprint – Development and Design
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What is the TMD Sprint Process? The Modern Developer Agile Series defines a Sprint as: “The TMD Sprint is a two-week development iteration that seeks to deliver functional, clearly defined, well-tested and fully documented Business solutions. These Business solutions are based on a ...
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Estimating User Story Effort Requirements
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The TMD User Story Points Estimation Process Estimating Development Effort User Story Points starts with a User Story that describes some requirement that is currently missing within the Business Domain, the “Problem Domain”. It is Referred to as the Problem Domain …...
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Putting “Teeth” in the Development Process
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What are “Teeth” in Development? The management of a traditional project consists of a project management tool to document the reported progress by the Development Team and the supporting Solutions Teams. This process queries the development resource for a percentage of completion...
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The Teams – Network
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The Agile Network Infrastructure Team The Network Infrastructure Team supports the Development, Quality Assurance and Deployment of the certified Code Base to the various enterprise platform environments. These environments include the continuous integrated Development environment, QA testing and Staging, an emulation of...
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