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Aaron Chu

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Collaboration instead of cooperation

For a long time, collaboration and cooperation have meant the same thing to me. Actually, I use word ‘cooperation’ more often when talking about teamwork. Today I read an article called ‘Teamwork in Agile’ written by Bal Mahale. I realized after reading it that collaboration and cooperation are totally different. Here is Bal’s explaination: People […]

What Killed Waterfall Could Kill Agile

Robert Martin wrote an article in November, 2010 entitled “What killed water fall could kill Agile” Martin wrote about the elitism in software development. In water fall, the analysts are elites; they define everything in documentation and leave the work to the developer. When a project fails, it is the developer who bares the blame. […]

Reflection and Improvement – Key of Agile

2010 Agile tour Hangzhou, Jeff Xiong shared an agile story of two teams in different city, we called it ‘a tale of two cities’. The two teams work very hard, always overtime, but the output is not proportional with what they have paid. The client is unhappy, team always get blamed. They had to ask […]

Notes from “Agile Project Management with Scrum”

I read the book “Agile Project Management with Scrum”  recently, there are some quotation I think is good to share. If you also have good one, please share with us. 1. ScrumMaster like a sheepdog, responsible for keeping the flock together and the wolves away. 2. A Scrum project is controlled by means of frequency […]