The "in breakfast there are chickens and there are pigs" analogy is a popular one in Agile circles. It refers to the idea that in a given project there are people who are fully committed (pigs, developers) and people those who are merely invested (chickens, stakeholders). I take issue with...

Over on the altnetconf list the question arose as to where you start when implementing agile within an organization. The first thing to bear in mind is that you probably want to avoid implementing all the practices, at the same time. This is likely to cause you to fail, because your attention will be...

Today we had our iteration planning meeting. It was a long one as we're trying to sharpen our user story technique and are switching estimation methodologies from hours to "story points" or "NUTs" (back to them). We managed to wrangle some ill-defined stories into the standard...