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How should I pitch moving to an agile/iterative development cycle with mandated 3-week deployments?

I'm part of a small team of four, and I'm the unofficial team lead (I'm lead in all but title, basically). We've largely been a "cowboy" environment, with no architecture or structure and everyone ...
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What is the difference between Agile Modeling and the Agile Manifesto? [closed]

By searching for the different software development methods I found that there are two AM: Agile Modeling Agile Manifesto The problem is that I can't get the difference between them. If one is a ...
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Methodology between Scrum and Rapid [closed]

I would like to ask about which one is the best and appropriate methodology for someone who is developing a mobile application that consist of phases during the development process? Basically the ...
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What are the monetary benefits of going agile? [closed]

Why go agile? This is the first question that comes to my mind when I think of going agile. What are the possible financial benefits one can achieve from going agile? Most of us certainly like to ...
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What issues should we be aware of converting to Agile/Scrum with a project that's underway? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What have you seen go wrong when introducing SCRUM? Let me preface the question by telling you that our company doesn't have any formal "thou shalt..." processes in ...
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Scientific evaluation of programming methodologies [closed]

There are now a a variety of programming methodologies: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban to just name a few. Most of them combine several more basic techniques (for example frequent iterations). ...
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How do I go about choosing a development lifecycle model model?

Based on this question about alternatives to the agile philosophy and its answers and comments I thought it might be useful to discuss what goes into the decision of what "methodology" to use when at ...
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1answer
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Large Ecommerce Site Topology and Deployment Guidelines

Problem I am a lead engineer for a highly trafficked eCommerce website (upwards of 1m page views an hour). For various reasons we have the opportunity to rebuild large portions of our ...
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Should we adopt an agile methodology when rewriting an existing application from scratch?

I work for a small product based company. We are about to re-write our existing product from scratch. We are planing to adopt Agile methodology for our development. Now my question is as we have all ...
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Moving from a traditional waterfall methodology to an agile one

My development team is in the process of 'going agile' and lot of people are looking at each other blankly, not really too sure what it means. All management are saying is 'start working agile' ...
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How agile methodologies can be applied in a typical “ services ” company?

My company is a custom software services company for external clientes, which means our typical project is one in which the contract already states the full budget of the project. Our typical ...
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Is there a viable alternative to the agile philosophy?

The two predominant software-development philosophies are waterfall and agile. When discussing these two, there is often much focus on the particular practices that distinguish them (pair ...
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Daily standups- yea or nay? [closed]

How valuable (or not) do you think daily stand-up meetings are? If you're not familiar with it, this refers to a daily meeting that is part of Scrum adherents (and some other agile methodologies). ...