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Pink Rose, Beijing: Martin Harris.

I have been reading chapter 12 of Succeeding with agile by Mike Cohn. The chapter title is Leading a Self-Organising Team. I have been reading it in the following context:

Strive for technical excellence and Improving technical practices is not optional.

Why is it that improving technical excellence is sometimes neglected on a project? Why do developers think its ok to check in classes with warnings, leave essential and easily written tests out or add to messy code. You must of heard the phrase “nobody cares about a building with broken windows.” One more broken window will not matter. The same applies to software. Often you will find developers harboring some kind of guilt for not fixing things.
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Pushing the cart, Matheran, India: Martin Harris

I went along to the London Scrum User Group yesterday evening. For a change it was a quiet night. Christmas is around the corner so we had less attendees. Nigel Baker of AgileBear kicked off and suggested putting together 15 tips for good scrum. After some discussion, we came up with 6 good ones, and in true Agile style, we decided that if you did these 6 well, you would be in front of the pack. So we stopped there and got on with eating the snacks and drinking the beer. The night was sponsored by Rally Software, cheers for the food guys. So here is what the group came up with, look at your team and ask yourself if your doing these, if not, perhaps its time for a scrum experiment?

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