Mike Cohn posted recently about "Deciding What Kind of Projects Are Most Suited For Agile". In that post he writes,
In my view, the most appropriate projects for agile are
ones with aggressive deadlines, a high degree of complexity, and a high
...
0 replies - 595 views - 08/06/11 by Dave Rooney in News
The other day I read about how the choice/change of JavaScript
frameworks in Rails has caused some controversy in the Rails community.
In addition, I’ve been asked several times over the last few weeks if Bowler
“integrates” with any particular...
0 replies - 476 views - 08/06/11 by Wille Faler in News
According to tech news site BGR, it's possible that Suresh Periyalwar, Research In Motion's head of Blackberry software, has left the company after 10 years of service. RIM has been going through a tough time recently, as their stock has fallen more than 60%...
0 replies - 12158 views - 07/26/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Scrum defines a set of required meetings: Sprint Planning, Daily
Scrum, Scrum Review, and Scrum Retrospective. Additionally, there might
be a Scrum of Scrums, if you’re running multiple Scrum teams in
parallel. If you’re doing two week sprints you...
0 replies - 936 views - 07/08/11 by Matthias Marschall in News
Mulesoft has announced the beta version of Mule iON, a cloud-based integration platform-as-a-service which allows developers to integrate and orchestrate services and applications whilst giving operations the visibility and control needed for important...
0 replies - 10754 views - 07/05/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
In an unsurprising maneuver that seems to echo the strategies of many
other projects, Scala has moved their repository from Subversion to Github. Some interesting responses we found on Hacker News:
0 replies - 10293 views - 06/14/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Scrum assumes that the team is able to create a product increment in
the very first sprint – working software that could be shipped. But
little has been said about the agile frontend, the necessary activities
to prepare the first sprint. This blog post...
0 replies - 1768 views - 05/31/11 by Roman Pichler in News
We think of managers making decisions, setting priorities, organizing work, keeping budgets, and mentoring people.
What we’ve overlooked or ignored is a manager’s role as designer.
Managers are designers of the experience of work and of systems to...
0 replies - 643 views - 04/15/11 by Esther Derby in News
As the Hudson community chooses sides today with a vote for or against renaming the project and moving development away from Oracle, the creator of Hudson, Kohsuke Kawaguchi made "One last plea" in the Oracle divorce drama:
1 replies - 29488 views - 01/28/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Do you remember the "gossip game" we played in elementary school? Our teacher would give one person a sentence or two and ask them to repeat it to the next person. They would repeat the sentence to the next person, and so on, until the last person...
0 replies - 9584 views - 10/13/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
There's an international conference known as the The Agile Tour It's had a number of events all over the world, and now it's gaining traction in the United States as well. (If you are in the international DZone audience, please forgive my local bias.)
0 replies - 2843 views - 10/08/10 by Jared Richardson in Announcements
You manage developers and you'd like to think you're a good manager... but look at the evidence. Most, if not all, of your projects are late. Your team often delivers products riddled with bugs. Quite a few never ship at all. How can you be a good manager if...
13 replies - 21857 views - 10/06/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
How many developers think they're good programmers? We're not. We're all fairly bad at what we do. We can't remember all the methods our code needs to call, so we use autocompleting IDEs to remind us. And the languages we've spent years, in some cases...
31 replies - 54963 views - 09/29/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
I remember a topic my childhood pastor would revisit from time to time: "gift projection". Without going deep into the subject, it's the tendency of people to assume that whatever giftings or callings they have are the same ones everyone else should...
0 replies - 8790 views - 09/22/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
How often have you lived this scenario? Customers and managers beg,
scream, and demand more features tomorrow. No matter what you tell them
you can get done, they ask for more. So you work very hard... you do
Whatever It Takes. You consume vast amounts of...
13 replies - 15795 views - 09/08/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
