Why Are You Not a Software Engineer?
Extreme Programming (XP) has been around for a long time, but most developers are not following these Agile practices.
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Leadership in Software Development.
Developers are very logical and analytical. In the world of DiSC, which is a behavior assessment tool, most programmers fall into the D... more »
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5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 5-17-13
This week: Netflix CIO Mike Kail on redefining IT, the twisted mind of the software tester and promoting Agile in Waterfall culture.
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So, I Heard You Guys Like Software Comics
We don't exactly have Scott Adams on staff to draw witty satires about office shinanigans, but we always enjoy putting out a few good... more »
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Hothousing: New Concept or New Word?
Have you heard the term hothousing? Want to know what it is and how to run a session? When do you use this? What's the format like? What... more »
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How we do the Daily Scrum in my team
In a typical Daily Scrum, every team answers the three questions about what was done, what is next and which impediments there are. We... more »
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Agile Can Alter the 5 Desirable Properties of Modeling Tools and Techniques
I do not think the agile approach diminishes modeling, in fact I think it increases the modeling because before the start of every... more »
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Certified Agile - The PMI-ACP Exam
Experience and general reading aren’t enough to prepare for a PMI certification exam. PMI wants everyone who holds a certification to... more »
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Taking One for the Team...the Refactoring of Failure
Allowing for a bank holiday and foreseeable absences, the team's Sprint Planning budget came to around 42 story points. Unfortunately,... more »
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codemotion Berlin 2013 technology lab: The aftermath
At the codemotion Berlin 2013, we, i.e. Michael Lex and Ben Ripkens, gave a technology lab. We had an ambitious plan: In three hours we... more »
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Certified Agile: the PMI-ACP Exam
What's the point of PMI's Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification? What's it like to sit for the exam - and what do you need... more »
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Why Most Agile Adoptions Fail
This short video introduces some ideas that will help us map why we can’t get agile going and take effective steps to actually succeed with it.
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Estimates in Software Development - New Frontiers.
I think we should embrace estimate distribution and invent new ways to model and use it. We shouldn’t fight it. This will be a war... more »
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Safe stubbing with Bogus
Bogus presents a novel way of isolating in Ruby tests. This posts shows how to stub safely with Bogus.
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Promoting Agile in a Waterfall Culture
It’s all well and good to say that you want to adopt Agile practices. But sometimes, waterfall development processes are an ingrained... more »
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Overcoming Self-organization Blocks
We know that self-organization is a critical aspect of every successful Agile and Scrum team and we also know that it takes trust,... more »
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Is Agile Always Appropriate?
This article describes a recent experience with a software development project trying to adopt the Agile methodology without enough... more »
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Summary of the Schneide Dev Brunch at 2013-03-03
If you couldn't attend the Schneide Dev Brunch in March 2013, here are the main topics we discussed summarized as good as I remember them.
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Gambling in Software
I want to tell you about a meeting we had a few days ago. It reminded me of “The Jack Story” (which was part of an old stage routine of... more »
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