Category: yearly

That Was the Year That Was

December 30, 2008 by Peter Stevens

I’ve promised myself I would actually take some vacation this week, and fortunately with small children in the house, it’s actually possible to do so! So, before the kids wake up, a blitz retrospective: High Points, Low Points and Potential for Improvement in 2009.

Top on Agile Software Development (.com) in 2008

December 26, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

Year 2007 was a year of explosive growth on our site. In 2007 it was a purely private blog, in 2008 the site became a collective work of several highly creative contributors: Jurgen, Przemyslaw, Peter, Mike, Matt, Janusz and yours truly (you can become a contributor too). January to December we rocked from 12000 to well over 70000 pageviews a month.

 

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According to Google Analytics ten most popular writings of the years are:

• The always popular series of links to Sprint and Product Backlog templates and examples in Excel
  • And particularly the simplest possible product backlog template and the simplest possible sprint backlog template
• A debate on whether developers would ever read the long and detailed requirement specification
• A discussion on whether unit testing can be a waste
• Characteristics of a good user story
• A series of short posts on modeling the customer needs with the help of the Kano model of customer satisfaction
• When done doesn’t necessarily mean done
• Description of what the product backlog is about
• Tips for improving your daily standup meetings

My First Agile Project: So It's Come To This - The Year In Review

December 24, 2008 by mattgrommes

In the spirit of the season (Year-End Recap and Top 10 List season I mean), in this episode of My First Agile Project I'll be going over the previous posts in the series and giving some behind-the-scenes comments. If you've read some of the series, keep reading for more you might like. And if you haven't read any of my posts before, I've read some very kind things about the series on readers' blogs so you don't have to take my word for it when I say you will like it. If you don't like it, I'll give you your money back guaranteed.

Year 2008 in a nutshell

December 22, 2008 by Przemysław Bielicki

Christmas and New Year is coming so it's time for some summary. I've never done this before but this year was quite awesome and I have something to be proud and loud.

Let's start from January when I moved from my hometown to the glamorous French Riviera i.e Cote d'azur (yes, the sea here is pretty much azure).

I accomplished some cool stuff at work and one that I can share with you is the new generation hotel search engine - Wallaby (which is working but still in beta phase).

Top stuff on Agile Software Development (.com) in 2007

January 7, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

Year 2007 was the first one for the active work on this site. After the end of the year, I guess it might be useful to publish a bit of a statistical summary.The site took off for real in the beginning of the Summer starting with 10-50 visits a day. By December the daily amount of visitors grew to something like 200-300 visits with the peaks to hubdreds and even thousand of visits a day.

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According to Google Analytics the most popular (and useful?) writings of the year are: