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How To Create Round Buttons in Xamarin Forms
The solution to the lack of a round button in Xamarin is a pretty simple one.
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Agile, Project Management, Software Development, Teams, Technology
Software Development and Creativity
What is creativity and why is it important in software development? Here is how to find the creative people you need and help them to be successful in your company
Agile, Project Management, Software Development, Teams
How To Build A High Performance Agile Team
Agile software development places more responsibility on individual programmers to make key decisions. How to recognize, hire and keep the top performers who improve your chances of success.
Occam’s Razor and the Art of Software Design
Occam’s Razor is a principle of simplicity that eliminates assumptions in support of a conclusion. The principle is valuable in virtually every aspect of life, but it essential to the success of software projects – in particular large complex ones. One of the guiding principles of Agile Methods it that we focus most on the things that provided the greatest value and Occam’s Razor is a valuable tool that helps maintain that focus.
Agile, Project Management, Scrum, Software Development, Technology
Estimate How Long It Will Take To Complete Your Agile Project
Are We There Yet? Are we there yet? – Donkey from Shrek 2 If you are a parent with kids any older than three or four years of age you’ve… Continue Reading
Agile, Project Management, Scrum, Software Development, Technology
Calculating the Velocity of Your Agile Projects
A Simple Way to Calculate the Velocity of Your Agile Teams and Projects Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the… Continue Reading
Agile, Project Management, Scrum, Software Development, Technology
Estimate Story Size by Playing Agile Planning Poker
Over the years that I’ve been leading software development projects, I’ve used a number of methods including comparison of projects of similar size and complexity, Microsoft Project, Function Point Analysis or even simply guessing. There have been a few other trendy and perhaps oddball approaches thrown in for good measure. Curiously, regardless of method, the results have tended to be pretty much the same. There has, however, been one exception. I’ve gotten noticeably better results with Agile methods using Agile Planning Poker.
Agile, Project Management, Scrum, Software Development, Technology
Estimating Effort For Your Agile Stories
Wrong Way – Go Back (flickr – naz’s stuff) The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them,… Continue Reading
Agile, Project Management, Scrum, Software Development, Technology
Agile Coach Camp Canada 2010
An Open Space Conference for Agile Coaches Background On June 11th and 12th I was fortunate to be able to attend Agile Coach Camp Canada 2010 in Waterloo Ontario. The… Continue Reading
Agile, Project Management, Risk Management, Software Development, Technology
Agile Program Risk Management
In many organizations, there are monthly or quarterly reviews of a portfolio or program by senior management to ascertain the progress. Risk assessment is an important facet of project management, and assessing and reporting on the Risks of projects is thus an essential part of this regular review.