Announcing The Swarming Development Method
By now, you’ve probably figured out that I’m laying out all the guidance for using Swarming as a legitimate, full-fledged, Agile method....
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Tom Perry
- Oct 4, 2014
- 2 min
Swarming Resources
Here are some of the books and web sites that researched as part of my investigations into swarming. There are a few that I should...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 3, 2014
- 2 min
Project Anarchy
Recently I’ve been writing a series of posts on a rather radical methodology that I call Swarming. I describe it as a method that enables...
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Tom Perry
- Oct 1, 2014
- 2 min
Starting Swarming
“prattle without practice” ― William Shakespeare, Othello Enough prattle! All this theory is great, but how do we actually set the...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 29, 2014
- 4 min
Swarming Context
The application of Swarming as a method can be broken down into four main contexts. For each context the process of swarming is...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 27, 2014
- 2 min
Broadcast Communication
In the agile development community, we are all hip to the notion of two way communication. It can be via any mechanism you choose: email,...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 26, 2014
- 2 min
Swarming Roles
So far in this series I have covered the values and principles of the swarming methodology. Now let’s talk about roles on swarming teams....
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Tom Perry
- Sep 25, 2014
- 1 min
Swarming Principles
In an earlier post I introduced a set of values that might be used to guide swarming teams. Values are a good start. They provide very...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 22, 2014
- 3 min
The Values of a New Methodology: Swarming
Perhaps the time has come for a new methodology. The old methodologies are showing their age as they are gradually incorporated and...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 19, 2014
- 3 min
Hunting for The Elusive Swarming Rule
There are a variety of different ways of going about swarming. There is the ad hoc approach: all hands on deck, everybody find a way to...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 14, 2014
- 4 min
Hierarchy vs. Constellation
“Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 22, 2009
- 1 min
Agile Teams Better Found Than Made?
I’ve been dabbling with the idea of swarming and how it might relate to team organization in software development for a couple of years...
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Tom Perry
- Sep 10, 2008
- 1 min
Swarming System Analysis Tools
What if we could model the interaction of teams the same way that we model the behavior of slime-molds, ants, and other simple organisms?...
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Tom Perry
- Jul 22, 2008
- 2 min
Swarming Meets “The Blob”
An let’s face it, what is a man eating blob from outer space really made of? I bet it was just a slime mold. The blob was probably just...
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Tom Perry
- Jul 12, 2008
- 1 min
Upcoming Swarming Presentations
As we get closer and closer to Agile 2008, Dhaval and I are spending a lot of our time refining our presentation, Swarming: The Birds and...
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Tom Perry
- Jul 10, 2008
- 1 min
New Site Dedicated to Swarming Teams
A friend of mine, Dhaval Panchal, and I have been working on swarming quite a bit lately in preparation for our Agile 2008 presentation...
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Tom Perry
- Jun 2, 2008
- 1 min
Diversity & Teams
I’ve been reading “The Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki lately and he makes a compelling case for composing teams of people from a...
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Tom Perry
- May 22, 2008
- 5 min
A few Ramblings on the Topic of Swarming
Here are a couple of definitions of swarming: 1 a: a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to...
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Tom Perry
- Dec 3, 2007
- 3 min
What is “Swarming?”
The term is derived from the behavior of insects in nature. The classic example of this behavior is a beehive when it reaches a critical...
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