Mitch Pronschinske03/29/10
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Kanban pioneer David Anderson recently submitted a manuscript of his new book for copy editing. The book is titled "Kanban - Successful Evolutionary Change for Technology Organizations," and it is the first complete and formal documentation of...
Olga Kouzina03/26/10
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Yesterday Google alerted
me about a review of TargetProcess by Boris Gloger. I started reading
this review and I couldn’t believe my eyes. How could Boris
Gloger, such a respected Scrum trainer, overlook some important
features of an agile tool...
Mitch Pronschinske03/25/10
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The vulnerability analysis features in Klocwork's products were recently strengthened to align with industry and government best practices. Klocwork is a static analysis suite for agile development projects in Java, C#, C and C++. Their tools check for...
Joshua Barnes03/25/10
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The current state of the economy and its financial crisis has
required organizations to put additional structure and scrutiny to
financial model risk management. There is increased stipulation for
rigor and accountability from executive management,...
Mark Needham03/24/10
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While pairing with Damian
we came across the fairly common situation where we'd written two
different tests – one to handle the positive case and one the negative
case.
While tidying up the tests after we'd got them passing we noticed
that the test...
Mitch Pronschinske03/23/10
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Today at EclipseCon, Red Hat announced the general availability of the third and final piece of the JBoss Open Choice strategy. The newly released JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0 joins the JBoss Enterprise Web Server and the JBoss Enterprise Application...
Joshua Barnes03/23/10
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My last blog
post was about the creation of a process for “development” that is
outside of the IT area. I have been contacted both directly via email (Joshua@upmentors.com) and by comment on the
original post made at www.upmentors.com, all...
Mitch Pronschinske03/23/10
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At EclipseCon this week, Jason van Zyl, the founder of Sonatype and the Apache Maven project, is unveiling the first product in Maven Enterprise Suite, a series of Maven enterprise tools to be released this year. The new product, Maven Studio for Eclipse,...
Mitch Pronschinske03/22/10
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A new open source web application security hole scanner is available from Google on the Google Code site. The tool, named Skipfish, is similar to Nmap and Nessus because it allows web developers to test their applications for possible vulnerabilities, but...
Eric Hagan03/22/10
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The tool chain and the development choices have become much more complex. In this interview, Dave Thomas gives his unique, experienced perspective on today's software companies at the business, architectural, and development levels. Cloud Computing is a...
Jerry Andrews03/22/10
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I'm fairly fearless when coding, which means that about once a week, I
delete a huge chunk of something I should've kept, or change something
into something unrecognizable, thereby inadvertently breaking a dozen
unit tests. When I discover the problem,...
Mike Cottmeyer03/22/10
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Okay... way too big a gap between meaningful blog posts. Since it
has been so long, you might want to go back and take a look at the first
post in this series called "Getting
Started with Agile... One of Five". There is a bit of irony here...
James Shore03/19/10
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Full Text
The following text is excerpted from The Art of Agile
Development by James Shore and Shane Warden (O'Reilly 2007).
Copyright © 2008 James Shore and chromatic. All rights...
Julian Simpson03/18/10
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One of the longest running debates I’ve watched in the Maven
community over the years, is how to best support different
configurations for different deployment environments (where “deployment
environment” means a QA environment or staging...
Mitch Pronschinske03/17/10
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Reproducing a bug is one of the most problematic, "needle in a haystack"-type issues that a software development organization can face. In order to find that bug again so that it doesn't resurface at a critical time (they always do), you need to...
Mark Needham03/17/10
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I've spent a bit of time working with Les
recently and it's been quite interesting working out the best way for
us to pair together as he's working as a front end developer on the team
which means he's best utilised working on the CSS/JavaScript/HTML...
Nitin Bharti03/16/10
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In this presentation, recorded at Øredev 2009, Jens Østergaard examines why Scrum is so hard to implement.
He discusses failure modes for Scrum Master, Team, Product Owner and Management and also looks at failure modes in
sprint-planning, daily Scrum, and...
Olga Kouzina03/16/10
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There’s so much room for observations and analogies in the evolution
of production trends. Analogies are not merely a candy for the brain.
They bring along a deeper understanding of phenomena and ultimately are
one of the greatest aides to align (or...
Joshua Barnes03/15/10
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I recently finished creating the initial version of a process
for developing “applications” by people outside of the IT area. Almost
all companies have such development, where an end user develops
something that is used in the business, without...
Mitch Pronschinske03/12/10
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Until Perforce creates its own VCS client for the NetBeans Platform, Tutuianu Aurelian will continue developing his contribution to the open source community: PerforceNB - a Perforce client for NetBeans. Aurelian has been developing in NetBeans since its...
Jurgen Appelo03/12/10
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Yesterday I had a bit of an
argument on Twitter about differences between Scrum and
Kanban. Personally I don't care which is better than the other,
because I believe that all models are wrong, but some are useful. And
both Scrum and Kanban can be...
James Shore03/12/10
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Full Text
The following text is excerpted from The Art of Agile
Development by James Shore and Shane Warden (O'Reilly 2007).
Copyright © 2008 James Shore and chromatic. All rights reserved.
Releasing
What is the value of code? Agile...
Mark Needham03/11/10
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Alan Atlas has a recent
blog post where he discusses agile, lean and scrum and suggests that you
can't truly achieve agility unless your company is fully committed to
it which differs slightly from my experiences.
Alan makes a valid point that we're...
Giorgio Sironi03/11/10
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I am halfway through reading Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests, a
book that teaches Test-Driven Development in a Java environment. A
review will come soon, since the process described in this work is
really language-agnostic and...
