Eric Hagan05/05/10
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Continuous integration evolved from the daily build. In the late nineties and early 2000's, Continuous Integration evolved out of eXtreme Programming and took daily builds to the 'extreme' level, where you're building every time there's a change committed...
Mike Cottmeyer05/05/10
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What if you are a manager that wants to do Scrum? You ask yourself
if it's possible to encapsulate the entire value stream into a single
Scrum team? What if you learn that the answer is no? What if you think
this through even further, and discover...
Jared Richardson05/05/10
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Most developers think that graphs and charts are for weak-minded managers who like pretty colors. And they couldn't be more wrong. The problem is actually the arrogance of many developers. Whether or not we'd like to admit it, we think we are pretty darn...
Wendy Devolder05/05/10
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Following on from the success of last year, this annual event for the UK's enterprise software architect community will have architectural innovation as a theme this year, and particularly CQRS. We will feature leading thinkers and architects who will share...
Eric Hagan05/04/10
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Jay Flowers says that in setting up a CI system, many organizations want to 'recreate the wheel'. Tools like CI factory can take care of that initial setup so you don't have to do that on every project. Another pitfall is not running enough unit tests...
Jurgen Appelo05/04/10
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Leadership is a term used by many, but sometimes understood by only a
few. Again and again I feel compelled to question ideas about
leadership that seem to be based on beliefs, rather than science.
In my opinion, there are two groups of people...
Michael Sahota05/04/10
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Arlo Belshee and Jim Shore had an interesting pair presentation on
titled “Single Piece Flow in Kanban” at LSSC10. A more accurate
(although inflammatory) name for the talk is “Enough Kanban! Use XP for
Single-piece flow”. It is worth mentioning...
Giorgio Sironi05/04/10
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As a software developer, it's common to learn new practices every day. Although there are jokes about how the more a programmer ages, the more his lines of code counter goes sky high even to accomplish simple tasks, usually this process results in an overall...
Lyndsey Clevesy05/03/10
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Get Started with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5!This in-depth introduction to JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform 5 is a must have for Java EE beginners and senior architects alike. It'll take you from
installation all the way to the deployment...
Eric Hagan05/03/10
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Jez Humble says that last mile between development completion and production can be expensive and painstaking because teams aren't always prepared for it. His book discusses the importance of making sure that everything you check-in to version control gets...
Jurgen Appelo05/03/10
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This is a video of the talk that I did in Cluj, Romania. It was
organized by the Transylvania
Java User Group and ISDC.The Zen of Scrum from Jurgen Appelo on Vimeo.The Zen of ScrumView more presentations from Jurgen Appelo.View more presentations from...
Jared Richardson05/03/10
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What's the difference in smart and dumb? I've come to believe it's two things. How far ahead you can think into the future and how quickly you can do that thinking.When someone is playing chess, pool, or poker, their skill is determined by how many moves...
Jurgen Appelo04/30/10
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I sometimes get the feeling that there are two versions of
Scrum. The first version is the one that says that “Scrum
is not a methodology, a defined process or set of procedures. it's an
open development framework.” (Jeff Sutherland) and “Scrum is...
Eric Hagan04/29/10
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Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognized CI expert and a technical evangelist at Urban Code. In this interview, Fredrick discusses how a software organization can improve its build and release process with Lean. He believes that Lean is the next...
Jared Richardson04/29/10
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I have a co-worker who's never happy. Never. But today it's even worse. He just lost an hour or two of his work. He was writing code that deleted a large number of files, and due to an error in the code, it deleted everything- including the script he was...
Kelly Waters04/29/10
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In my series of posts "How
to Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps", I refer to two stages of
estimating:Step 2 is how
to estimate your Product Backlog.Step 4
is estimating
tasks in Sprint Planning.Someone recently
asked me a very good...
Mitch Pronschinske04/29/10
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This week Hudson creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi introduced his new startup, InfraDNA, which provides support and consulting for the Hudson Continuous Integration system. After nine years of employment, Kawaguchi left Oracle earlier this month in order to start his...
Eric Hagan04/28/10
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Mike Jones is the VP of worldwide marketing at OutSystems. OutSystems has been working on Agile adoption projects for seven years - mainly in companies that build web applications. Automated deployment and impact analysis are some of the main tools used...
Mark Needham04/28/10
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I was recently reading a blog post by Esko Luontola where he talks
about the
direct and indirect effects of TDD and one particularly interesting
point he makes is that driving our code with a TDD approach helps to
amplify the problems caused by...
Jurgen Appelo04/28/10
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One-way messages don’t count as “communication.” The
traditional way of thinking of communication as “the transmission
of information from one person to another” is wrong, wrote Alistair
Cockburn in Agile
Software Development. To explain...
Jared Richardson04/28/10
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There are many ways to improve your code. Some are cheap, others expensive. There are tools, processes, conferences, and metrics. There are so many different ways that we're told how to write better code. We're told in books, at conferences, in classes, and...
Eric Hagan04/27/10
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Paul Julius is an independent consultant who has recently worked with many companies to implement continuous integration at the enterprise level. He also has techniques to measure the effectiveness of CI implementations. One of his favorite metrics is the...
Gunnar Peipman04/27/10
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Agile development expects mind shift and developers are not the only
ones who must be agile. Every chain is as strong as it’s weakest link
and same goes also for development teams. Agile
Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software...
Jared Richardson04/27/10
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Jeff Anderson wrote up his impressions from the extremely successful Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010. Jeff had a pretty good writeup and provides a bit of insight to the conference.It's a brief, but pretty good, writeup. He does more than just cite...
Steven Lott04/27/10
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I can't say enough good things about TDD. But I'll
try.Due to an epic failure to read the
documentation (this,
specifically) I couldn't get our RESTful web services to work in
Apache.The entire application system has
pretty good test coverage. I...
