Mitch Pronschinske06/07/10
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Although most developers in a recent study said they wouldn't prefer a trip to the dentist or a fender bender over testing software, a majority said they would rather do their taxes (which is becoming increasingly complicated in the US) instead of dealing...
Bino B. Manjasseril06/04/10
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Several years ago, when I was first introduced to Agile software development methodology, I dismissed the idea saying that its just a temporal hype. Few years later, I re-considered it because I saw it staying in the trend. I failed to see its value until I...
David Bland06/04/10
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What’s Kanban?
It isn’t a question you’d expect to hear from a team adopting work in
progress limits and just in time tasking while only committing to small
user stories.
One of my favorite aspects of being a ScrumMaster and Agile Coach is...
Mitch Pronschinske06/04/10
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FlexMonkey is a free and open source Adobe AIR application used for testing Flex and AIR based applications. It can record, playback, and verify Flex UI interactions. FlexMonkey also generates ActionScript-based testing scripts that you can easily include...
Allan Kelly06/03/10
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As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I was recently out in Oslo
teaching a course on Lean software development. One of the points I
make is: Quality is free (or at least cheaper) provided you invest in
improving quality. This section of the course...
Fabrizio Giudici06/03/10
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I can't call myself an "agilist", as I'm rather a hybrid kind of software architect. But I like many aspects of the agile methods and I constantly try to adopt more of them. For instance, I like making frequent releases when I actually have control...
Jared Richardson06/02/10
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I've been helping a company establish a few Scrum-style Agile teams lately and there seem to be, as always, a few recurring themes. I wanted to share them while they were fresh on my mind.Don't over analyze everything. It doesn't matter if you don't know...
Eric Hagan06/02/10
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Andy Powell says that he's starting to see deeper patterns of software craftsmanship, including TDD, User Experience, and Product Management, emerge under the Agile umbrella. Organizations are finding a need for a stronger product management group that tries...
Alberto Gutierrez06/02/10
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There has
been a lot of discussion lately regarding which approach to software
development is better; some may say Waterfall, some may say Agile. The truth is
that there isn’t an absolute answer.
Agile and Waterfall
have a different set...
Kelly Waters06/02/10
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Scrum is the form of agile software development that
has helped me the most. It has helped me to
transform the performance of the web development groups that I've led at
both my current company and at my last one. But,
sometimes, I do wonder if Scrum...
Jurgen Appelo06/01/10
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I am a selfish person. Though I gladly do things for
other people, and give stuff away for free, I tend to do that when I
believe I’m being good to myself. The pursuit of my happiness
has led me to offer jobs to unfortunate unemployed souls who needed...
Jared Richardson05/31/10
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As we revisit the Agile Manifesto, we come to the often ignored line "customer collaboration over contract negotiation," and we all say "Well duh! Of course we'd rather talk than get the lawyers involved." Then we go on about our daily...
Mark Needham05/31/10
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I've previously written about the
danger of using velocity as a goal but on almost every project I've
worked on at some stage we do actually end up chasing a points total.
Something I find quite interesting towards the end of an iteration is
that if...
Mitch Pronschinske05/28/10
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In an effort to promote the adoption of agile and the sharing of related insights, ThoughtWorks has launched Agile Transitions. This online community is intended for C-level (CTO, CEO, etc.) executives who want to discuss issues related to Agile IT. A...
Michael Sahota05/28/10
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Subtitle: How we created and played a brand new game all in one
day.
On Day 2 of DeepAgile,
Michael McCollough and Don McGreal got us started on with a game
design workshop. From there we used open space to invent and play
the game with other...
Lyndsey Clevesy05/27/10
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It's not a true 100th Refcard celebration without... Refcake! Dedicated Refcardz reader and author of our 100th issue on FitNesse, Erik Pragt, brought our Refcardz celebration to his company, Jworks, in the form of a delicious Refcake! He had his Refcard...
Eric Hagan05/27/10
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Todd Olsen says that agile usually starts small in an organization. One department is interested in trying agile and they start using it and eventually proving that they can produce the desired results. As agile spreads to other teams in the organization...
Julian Holmes05/27/10
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There are many misconceptions in the software industry about Agile
development, and a typical example became a hot topic of discussion for
one of my client's project teams this week.One member of the team
suggested that "Just do it", or JFDI...
Jared Richardson05/26/10
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We're revisiting the Agile Manifesto in this series of articles, and this item is always of great interest to me. Would anyone ever make a conscious decision to target their docs instead of the product? Outside of a government subcontractor, no. So why did a...
Mitch Pronschinske05/26/10
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The second release of the YouTrack issue tracker from JetBrains (the
makers of IntelliJ IDEA), is available
today. YouTrack 2.0 lets you add custom issue attributes and flexible
access control. Also included are tools for enhanced issue visibility...
Asif Shahzad Ch.05/26/10
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For last couple of days I was thinking there must are some fundamental differences in how programmers think, act, and work as against to other professionals or common peoples. So here I share some of the points which I have figured out and...
Nitin Bharti05/26/10
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Being Agile is not the goal. Building better software that meets and
exceeds the true needs of it's users is. Your needs and environment are
different from others which means that the Agile practices that will
give you the most bang for your buck are...
Michael Sahota05/26/10
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At DeepAgile2010
this past weekend Mike McCollough led a session on Retrospective Games.
We played a brand new game called Balloon Madness as an excuse to use
several different retrospective formats. The game is in the conference
booklet but is not...
Jared Richardson05/26/10
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The Agile Manifesto is one of the most admired and ignored documents around. So many claim to be "Agile", then their actions tell us they are anything but. Which brings us to this series of articles... what is agile?I always go back to the...
