Lyndsey Clevesy03/10/10
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Chad Wathington is the VP of product development at ThoughtWorks Studios (TWS). TWS's Agile ALM tools include Mingle, Twist, and Cruise. Wathington says that TWS develops its tools in MRI and deploys to JRuby, and he discusses each of the tools in detail...
Jack Milunsky03/10/10
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Introduction
When one looks at all the wastes, defects has to be the most obvious
one. The cost and repercussions of finding defects varies depending on
where in the cycle they're found. Defects found early on in the
development life-cycle are way less...
Stephanie Cole03/09/10
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April 7, 2010, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, Toronto, CanadaDZone members receive:Free admission to the tradeshow, simply register here with code: TS130% discount on the conference, simply register here with code: ALC30 (expires Mar. 19)Do...
Mitch Pronschinske03/09/10
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A few months ago, DZone spoke with VersionOne CEO Robert Holler. Since 2002, when VersionOne appeared, Holler says their customer cases have grown from 5-20 person startups to 50-2,000 person enterprises. VersionOne's challenge has been to meet the...
Martin Fowler03/09/10
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When I discussed VersionControlTools
I said that it
was an unscientific agglomeration of opinion. As I was doing it I
realized that I could add some spurious but mesmerizing numbers to
my analysis by doing a survey. Google's spreadsheet makes the
...
Mitch Pronschinske03/08/10
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The data center automation tool vendor, rPath, recently added support for open source configuration management tools including Reductive Labs' Puppet, Cfengine, and Opscode's Chef. rPath is also working on native support for configuration management, which...
Eric Hagan03/08/10
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The CEO of VersionOne, Robert Holler, began one of the most successful agile management software companies in 2001 before it was widely accepted. In the early days, his company focused on providing agile infrastructure for small teams with 5-20 people. Now...
Jurgen Appelo03/08/10
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Last week Uncle Bob
Martin wrote about seven
“serious flaws” in Scrum. I usually agree with Bob, but not this
time. Actually, I might even feel a bit sad about all the
<method>-bashing I see happening in the Agile world, where all too
...
Mike Cottmeyer03/08/10
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To some extent, I think that Scrum is going through an identity
crisis. Part of what has made Scrum so successful is its simplicity.
We've got three roles, three ceremonies, and three artifacts. That's a
pretty refreshing idea to those of us that...
Mitch Pronschinske03/08/10
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Today, the Eclipse Mylyn project is announcing a major restructuring with the creation of several different sub-projects for each key Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) category. DZone spoke with Mik Kersten, the founder of the Mylyn project and CEO of...
Giorgio Sironi03/05/10
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I always believed in Subversion's
potential and that it would be a wide improvement over the nightmare
that was CVS,
but I found out that, as Linus says, There is no way to do CVS right.
Subversion is fairly good and it's probably the better...
Martin Fowler03/05/10
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One of the goals that my colleagues and I urge on our clients is
that of a completely automated deployment process. Automating your
deployment helps reduce the frictions and delays that crop up in
between getting the software "done" and...
Mitch Pronschinske03/05/10
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Fog Creek, the home of FogBugz that was founded in 2000 by Joel Spolsky, has been beta testing a new developer product for several months. FogBugz is a project-management tool that provides issue tracking, CRM, forums, wikis, and Evidence Based...
Eric Hagan03/04/10
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Matt Vanvleet is the VP of practice management and product development at Pillar Technology. Pillar has created a product called Verde which lets developers use modern practices such as TDD and CI within legacy code bases. Legacy code, which Vanvleet...
Michael Dubakov03/04/10
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Recently I’ve read a very interesting post by Anna Forss called “Stupidity of
the Team”. While Anna concludes, that it’s healthy to introduce
diverse opinions and invite opposing minds to dissolve the
like-mindedness of homogeneous teams, I...
Mitch Pronschinske03/04/10
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A German company, Hello2morrow, recently launched a new version of its tool for bridging the gap between architects and developers. SonarJ allows developers to validate their code against large software architectures using static analysis. It exists as a...
James Shore03/03/10
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My essay on the
problems with acceptance testing caused a bit of a furor. (Gojko
Adzic, George
Dinwiddie, Ron
Jeffries.) The biggest criticism was that, without acceptance
testing, how do you know that the software continues to work? The
classic...
Mitch Pronschinske03/03/10
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Implementing agile is easy when the group has some experience with its
principles. The hard part (maybe the hardest part) of introducing agile
is those very first steps. During the first stages, developers that
are unfamiliar with or adverse to...
Eric Hagan03/02/10
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Mark Crowe is the Director of Product Management at VersionOne. His company's most recent release includes the launch of the Ultimate Edition, which features built-in regression testing, an analytics package for custom reports, and integration with...
James Shore03/02/10
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Gojko Adzic wrote to ask about my
experiences with acceptance testing. For those who don't know, I was the
coordinator of the Fit project for a
while and co-author of the C# version. Fit is Ward Cunningham's brainchild and (as
far as I know) inspired...
Mitch Pronschinske03/02/10
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A lot of organizations transitioning to agile are focused on getting planning and communication practices in place, but they tend to neglect engineering practices until later. ThoughtWorks Studios tries to correct this anti-pattern with its ALM tools, which...
Nitin Bharti03/01/10
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Modeling is not the preserve of plan-driven methods, and the problems
sometimes encountered lie not with modeling per se but with overdosing
on models and failing to use modeling as an opportunity for
communication. Models that become an end in themselves...
Steve Ross-talbot03/01/10
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This article provides a high level view of the motivations behind the Savara open source project, and the Testable Architecture methodology upon which it is based. To best explain these motivations, we will discuss the project in terms of four properties that...
Michael Dubakov03/01/10
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Kai Gilb started a series of
posts that challenge Agile Software Development. Part 2 is about creativity
and “how well” focus in software development. While I agree with
the problem, I strongly disagree with the solution. Kai
recommends to write...
Lyndsey Clevesy02/26/10
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This case study is excerpted from the book, Evaluating Project Decisions: Case Studies in Software Engineering, authored by Carol Hoover, Mel Rosso-Llopart and Gil Taran, ISBN 0321544560, published in Oct. 2009 by Addison-Wesley Professional, Copyright 2010...
