SolutionsIQ offers a library of white papers, articles, and presentations that draw on our industry-acknowledged expertise in Agile practices and methodologies.

Agile Adoption

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• Agile 101: Basic Measurements | Agile teams use metrics to provide information for process tuning

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• Agile 101: Keeping a Healthy Backlog | These informative presentation slides are now available

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• The Business Case for Agility |  John Rudd writes about Agile ROI in this publication by Agile Journal

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• Agile ROI Part I: The Business Case for Agility | How can Agile practices increase returns?

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• Agile ROI Part I: The Business Case for Agility | These informative presentation slides are now available

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• Agile ROI Part II: Building the Business Case for Agility | David Wylie discusses the benefits of Agile Adoption

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• Agile ROI Part II: Building the Business Case for Agility Worksheet | David Wylie provides a handy worksheet to demonstrate the benefits of Agile

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• Agile Top-Down: Striking a Balance | What is the role of senior leadership when teams are self-managed?

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• Leading Agile Transformation | Chris Kinsman shares his experiences in adopting Agile at Vertafore

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Agile Architecture

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• Agile Architecture | How to better align business with architecture goals

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Agile Development

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• Agile Development Platform | Key elements of the SolutionsIQ Agile development platform

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• Agile Techniques for Meeting Customer Commitments | Practical tips for delivering on customer commitments

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• Domain-Specific Testing Languages | Practical tips to foster test code re-use and reduce test maintenance costs

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• Domain-Specific Testing Languages | A live presentation by Mickey Phoenix and Rand Huso

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• Electronic Evidence Discovery | Leading provider of litigation hosting and electronic discovery services adopts Agile

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• Managing Software Debt | Strategies for avoiding accumulating software debt (by Chris Sterling)

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• Managing Software Debt | Chris Sterling presents strategies for avoiding accumulating software debt

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• Narrative Testing | Tools for Story-Test-Driven Development

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• Narrative Testing | A live presentation by Mickey Phoenix

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• Technical Debt | What it is and how to prevent it (a presentation by Chris Sterling)

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Agile Project Management

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• A Non-Software Scrum Experience: Scrum-But or Context-Sensitive? | As presented by Halim Dunsky at the Agile 2010 Conference in Orlando, Florida

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• Agile EVM: Earned Value Analysis in Scrum Projects | A study tracking ROI and project performance in Scrum

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• Agile EVM: Project Portfolio Management Webinar | Brent Barton explains Agile EVM

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• Agile EVM: Project Portfolio Management | Explore Project Portfolio Management from various perspectives

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• Agile EVM: Project Worksheet | Sample spreadsheet of Agile EVM, tracked over two projects

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• Agile Metrics Panel Discussion | A discussion on Agile Metrics by David Wylie and Bryan Stallings

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• Establishing Transparency with Meta-Scrum | How to implement successful scaling techniques with Scrum

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• Focus on Value | How to create value-driven user stories

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• In Agile We Trust | Agile development helps project teams and customers focus on successes rather than failures

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• Raising the Bar with Agile | An Agile approach to performance improvement

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• Swarming: The Birds and the Bees and Agile | An animal behavior analogy for Agile teams

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• Value-Driven User Stories Exercise | Focusing teams on early and continuous delivery of valuable software

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• Product Owner Anti-patterns |  In this presentation delivered at the Scrum Gathering Shanghai 2010, Monica Yap explores anti-patterns and why they could make your project fail.

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Extreme Programming

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• Value-Based Extreme Programming | How one team overcame common project tracking challenges within XP

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Scaling Agile

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• Implementing Distributed Extreme Programming | The challenges and benefits of working with distributed teams

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• Scaling Agile with Scrum |  Vibhu Srinivasan discusses the Scaling of Agile among dispersed teams, as presented at the July 31, 2010 Scrum Bangalore meeting.

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• Successful Distributed Team Patterns |  Can distributed development be successful? In this presentation delivered at the Scrum Gathering Shanghai 2010, Monica Yap explores distributed development myths and more.

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• Successful Distributed Agile Team Working Patterns | Some of the common successful distributed team working patterns used on distributed Agile development projects, as well as those patterns identified and documented by others.

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Talent Acquisition

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• Beating the Interview | Tips and tricks to help you get your dream job

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