By Satish Sukumar on March 6, 2012
We presented a session at the Agile India conference on the 19th of Feb. We spoke about our experiences of using the agile discipline that enabled the success EduNxt within Manipal Global Education (MaGE). MaGE, is India’s largest provider of education in the private sector with over 220,000 students enrolled in more than 700 courses, [...]
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By Feroz Sheikh on February 29, 2012
Last weekend, Satish, Nag and I attended the International Conference on Agile and Lean Software Methods – Agile India 2012 at Bangalore. It was fun interacting with the Agile enthusiasts from all over the world and sharing our research ideas and experiences with the community. The conference was well attended and I guess the organizers [...]
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By Feroz Sheikh on February 29, 2012
This post is the second part of a two-part series. The problem we were discussing was that there are other stakeholder categories in a software system apart from the end users – business stakeholders, operations stakeholders and development stakeholders. In typical software development projects following Agile methodologies, these other stakeholders often get neglected. Their concerns [...]
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By Feroz Sheikh on February 29, 2012
When it comes to Agile methodologies, the debate around prioritization of stories based on business v/s technical value is probably too skewed. Functional stories get priority over the quality attributes of a system such as maintainability & modifiability, which get pushed out to later releases leading to expensive refactoring.
This is a two-part post addressing the [...]
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