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Extreme Programming
Agile software development frameworks like XP enable development teams to produce high-quality software. Taking traditional programming practices to extremes inspired this methodology's name.
Estimating with story points
To ensure a software project is completed on time and within budget, effort estimation is a critical element of planning and managing the project. As part of project planning, scheduling iteration and release procedures, budgeting, and costing, project effort estimates may be used by various stakeho
Work in process
Agile workflow work-in-process (W.I.P) limits specify the maximum amount of work at any given time.
Fundamentals of DevOps
DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations. This movement originated in the IT industry to align development and operations teams. Early in software development, module integration often failed and caused a great deal of frustration.
Agile contracting
Quality is key, but who is responsible for it in agile contracts? Assuring quality and agility is the responsibility of the service provider.
Characteristics of a product owner
Product owners maximise product value. The product owner brings the customer's perspective to the scrum team as a single individual.
Requirements Engineering
Requirements engineering is a relatively complex science involving elicitation, observation, brainstorming, facilitating focus groups, prototyping, analysis, modelling, and documentation—just a few of them.
Explanation of scrum events
The objective of a sprint is called a sprint goal. Teams develop increments based on sprint goals. Planning is done, of course, during sprint planning.
Legacy, enablement, native organisations structures and patterns
Learn and understand various types of organisational structures and patterns: legacy, enablement, native organisations.
Motivation, Agile Practises, and Agile Methods
The success of agile projects depends on team motivation. Team members are often expected to do more than follow orders and do what is asked of them.
Qualities of a product backlog
The product backlog lists the tasks that must be completed before the product can be released following its priority.
Fundamentals of user stories
User stories are designed to elicit a conversation by describing how a feature will benefit a customer.
Sprint Failure
Scrum but can be called restricted Scrum in a broader sense. When the team deviates from a framework, it leaves behind elements you believe are unnecessary.
The Fundamentals of Sprints
Sprints are time-bound, usually lasting two to four weeks, team members commit to achieving a sprint goal, no one outside the team is not permitted to make additions or changes.
Role of the Scrum Master
Scrum Masters serve as coaches and facilitators, removing distractions that impede teams from delivering value.
History and Origins of Scrum
Although initially developed by Sutherland and Schwaber, Scrum incorporates ideas from various sources. It includes practices such as daily meetings, task assignments, posting work on a wall, and graphing work, which are not novel concepts for teams.
Good to Great by Jim Collins
This book discusses how certain companies successfully transition from being good to great, emphasizing that settling for good can hinder greatness.
Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
'Influence' by Robert Cialdini is a seminal work that discusses persuasion mechanisms and their practical applications in many situations.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is an inspiring and enthralling story that follows Santiago, a young shepherd, as he searches for his true calling.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell, examines the various elements contributing to exceptional achievement, reexamining traditional perceptions of success.
Originals by Adam Grant
Grant contends that originality is nurtured through certain habits and perspectives conducive to innovation, not that it is innate.
Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
'Built to Last' provides profound insights into the elements contributing to the lasting success of visionary companies.
Ideal
There is nothing in life which can make it worthwhile except an ideal.
Purity of Life
Purity is the process through which the life-rhythm manifests; the rhythm of that indwelling spirit which has worked through the ages in mineral and plant in animal and man.
Law of action
Every man is a sculpture of his own image. Every man is a creator of his own conditions, favourable or unfavourable.
Man, the master of his destiny
Destiny is not what is already made; destiny is what we are making. Destiny means the materialisation of man's own thought.
Stages on the path of self-realization
Every person has his own God. Let them all call God by any name, or think of him with whatever imagination they have. It is after all the highest ideal and the ideal of each one is as high as his imagination can make it.
Path of attainment
The secret of life is the desire to attain something; the absence of this makes life useless. Hope is the sustenance of life; hope comes from the desire to attain something.
Limitation to perfection
An artist wishes to bring out the best that is in him; therein lies his satisfaction. In every soul there is a longing to bring out, to bring to a culmination, what is waiting within.
Interest and indifference
If one is hungry after gain one should have interest. If one feels relief in losing one should show indifference
Self-realization
To be religious does not necessarily mean to be spiritual.
The inner life
The inner life is much greater and nobler and much more powerful than the outer life.