I wonder if generalizing specialist is an acceptable compromise?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Generalizing Specialists: Improving Your IT Career Skills
link -> Generalizing Specialists: Improving Your IT Career Skills
InfoQ: Do Specialists Outperform Generalists on an Agile Team?
link -> InfoQ: Do Specialists Outperform Generalists on an Agile Team?
An Agile team is mostly a cross functional team comprising of generalists and specialists. Jurgen Appelo, challenges this concept and suggests that having just specialists on an Agile team adds more value. The post tries to correlate various view points on team composition by other members of the Agile community.
Seems like it is not just our team that is split down the middle. Maybe the whole agile community is that way. I liked the post from Jeff Atwood. I wish more of the leaders would chime in.
InformIT: Agile Processes and Self-Organization > Resources
link -> InformIT: Agile Processes and Self-Organization > Resources
Trying to figure out if cross-functional is included in the definition of self-organizing. Schwaber (creator of Scrum) lumps them together in this article.
SteveDenning.com |Radical management | Cross-functional teams that aren't: high-end knowledge firms
link -> SteveDenning.com |Radical management | Cross-functional teams that aren't: high-end knowledge firms
I think the buzzword to describe teammates sharing roles is cross-functional teams. This article talks about some advantages of cross-functional teams.
InfoQ: Organizing Self-organizing Teams
link -> InfoQ: Organizing Self-organizing Teams
Rashina Hoda is a PhD researcher who has been examining how self-organization actually happens on teams. She has studied teams in New Zealand and India and identified six distinct roles that emerge when teams effectively self-organize. She spoke to InfoQ about her research, which will be published at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2010) to be held in Cape Town in May.
Doing research to see if agile defines whether programmers only do programming and pms do requirements then hand them off. This paper seems to say the opposite.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
James Shore: Proficiencies of Planning
link -> James Shore: Proficiencies of Planning
James Shore consults and writes about high performance software development for teams who are willing to be great.
Note sure what level we are at. 1 or 2 maybe.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Agile Commentary: Snake on the wall!
link -> Agile Commentary: Snake on the wall!
Sounds similar to our external requests line but more useful
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Agile Engineering - Atlanta GA - March 1 | Summary | powered by RegOnline
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only $50. seems like a good deal.
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