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Steven Ropa

Steven Ropa
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Steve Ropa has been developing software for twenty years—eleven of which were in the agile world—and he's been a jazz trombonist for thirty years. Currently, Steve is an agile coach and consultant at VersionOne Software, where he specializes in helping teams merge the technical and team-oriented aspects of agile transformations. Steve’s blog can be found at http://steveropa.wordpress.com/.

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Steven Ropa

Steve Ropa has been developing software for twenty years—eleven of which were in the agile world—and he's been a jazz trombonist for thirty years. Currently, Steve is an agile coach and consultant at VersionOne Software, where he specializes in helping teams merge the technical and team-oriented aspects of agile transformations. Steve’s blog can be found at http://steveropa.wordpress.com/.

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Is There a Place in the Agile World for Tools?

When folks started moving to agile development around the turn of the century, they first moved away from using certain automated tools. They did this mostly in order to get rid of project management tools and focus on face-to-face communications. This was a reasonable reaction to what had turned into a world of silos and automated workflow management. We developers were ridding ourselves of the mechanisms that produce all of that ceremony and reams of design documents. We would only use index cards and hand-drawn charts on a whiteboard. We didn’t want any tools to get in the way of the real work we were doing.