Agile methodology
Waterfall model follows application development in phases with checkpoint and deliverable documents in each checkpoint. It advocates... more »
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Pair Programming Benefits: Part 2 - The Rest
When last we spoke, I discussed some of the pleasant discoveries that I had in my initial pair programming outings. In this post,... more »
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Sprint Reviews in Practice
Do you know what a Sprint Review is for, and how it differs from a Retrospective? In this article we look at what a Sprint Review is... more »
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Freedom, responsibility, and testing: Lessons for DevOps
Testing has a body of theory that helps its manageability and scalability. Many of the principles deserve to be borrowed into DevOps
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Book Review: The Economics of Software Quality by Capers Jones
The Economics of Software Quality, a book by Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour, provides solutions to quantify Software Quality which... more »
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Only 4 Roles
When creating something of value, the first people we care about are those who will get value from the product we create. I call these... more »
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Key Ingredient for Success: Systems Thinking
Our behavior is always a reaction to the system around us. Let us take an example of an Agile team working on a project, and as we know... more »
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Devs in the Ditch
I gave a talk at Devs in the ‘Ditch last week when I was in London. I posted the slides on slideshare: Overcoming Three Pitfalls of... more »
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JIRA 6 gets a UI makeover, mobile view
New release of world-beating issue tracker focuses on faster, user-friendly interface.
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Teaching programming, we have a huge problem
I’ve been a professional programmer now for over a decade, and during this time I’ve met a LOT of excellent programmers. Most of them are... more »
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HP Communities - Enterprise agile – Part 1 : Preplanning - Enterprise Business Community
“The team is everything”, “The team owns its own planning” . yea right! As if my project manager and his PMO and marketing managers... more »
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Agile: Placebo or Real Solution? by Linda Rising (Podcast)
The power of the placebo is based on our brain’s belief system. Because we believe the medication can work it does. I wonder if there is... more »
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Does Service Virtualization’s “Shift Left” Burden Developers?
Service virtualization undeniably benefits the development process, but it can be both a blessing & a curse for developers. Learn how... more »
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The Toxic Defense of the Status Quo
If you take anything away from this cautionary tale it is to constantly be on the look out for those that adhere to the status quo. It... more »
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Maven Git Flow Plugin for Better Releases
A new maven plugin is available enabling git flow workflows in your maven builds
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Domain Driven Design to Speed us Up by Opening Options
DDD is not about saving effort "sometime in the future", it provides value by actually speeding up the development effort now.... more »
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Testers and Developers, Can We Please Get Along?
Jokes about “stupid developers” are still lurking in the corners, stories of “throwing things over the wall to development” continue to... more »
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Transform Your Agile Process with Kanban Thinking
Large-scale software and systems development involves a complex mix of people, teams, technologies, skills, architectures, and... more »
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Refactoring Fat Models with Patterns
“Fat models” cause maintenance issues in large apps. Only incrementally better than cluttering controllers with domain logic, they... more »
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Using ASM to calculate test coverage in a new way. (Java)
Using ASM to calculate test coverage in a new way. ASM is an all purpose Java bytecode manipulation and analysis framework.
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Slack, the missing concept
This article is oriented to teams with mid-level proficiency in an Agile process, like mine. Impostor syndrome at work or new... more »
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Let's Measure Something Meaningless
Measuring something meaningful is hard, so let’s measure something that is meaningless but easy. Like your hours at work!
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Absolute Estimating vs. Relative Estimating
I’ve started work on some new videos and this time it’s all about Agile Estimating, Planning and Contracts. This is the obvious next step... more »
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Developing Web Application with Node.js, Express.js and MongoDB
This is a Proof of Concept for making Node.js to communicate with MongoDB through REST API
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Continuous Information - Jenkins newsletter volume 4
Vol 4 of the Jenkins newsletter came out last night. It features Jenkins tips from founder Kohsuke, latest growth stats (730+ plugins,... more »
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