Mitch Pronschinske02/02/10
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Two months after their last release, Danube is now releasing the next version of ScrumWorks Pro, their Scrum implementation framework. ScrumWorks Pro 4.3 derives many of its new features from customer requests on Danube's Community Portal, which debuted...
Michael Dubakov02/02/10
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You Kanbanized
your development process and setup a perfect
flow. You see the flow and feel its power. You even measure cycle
time and want to reduce it. But it is not as easy as expected. Some
problems in your development process are hard to find and...
Lyndsey Clevesy02/01/10
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Laszlo Szalvay, the President of Danube, talks to DZone about the evolution of Scrum and the current conversations around it. Danube makes the Scrum implementation software known as ScrumWorks. They are one of the largest Scrum training organizations in...
Mike Cottmeyer02/01/10
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Doing what I do for a living, I find myself often trying to explain
agile concepts to folks that are relatively new to agile methodologies.
Sometimes this comes up when I am teaching a class, doing a conference
talk, or breaking down some idea in a...
Rafael Naufal02/01/10
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Some weeks ago I started practicing pair programming with some co-workers for two reasons:
code some tasks of an user storyget familiar with a new software code base
I haven’t had an opportunity to put this technique in practice a lot
before, but I can...
Mitch Pronschinske01/29/10
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As agile is adopted by more development shops, the demand for integrated tools that cover the whole application development lifecycle is increasing. Some agile tool vendors try to create the entire suite by themselves, like IBM. Others will try to bring...
James Sugrue01/29/10
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When it comes to how you approach software development, you don't get anything better than adopting an agile software development process. But how to apply this in your process can sometimes confuse people. About two years ago I wrote an article describing...
Michael Dubakov01/29/10
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It is always interesting to look behind the scene. In previous post I
described
our development process, now I will show how we use Kanban
Board in TargetProcess.
Maybe it will give you some new ideas to try.
The most interesting part of every...
Nitin Bharti01/28/10
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The vision of object-oriented programming was to capture the end user
mental model in the code. Until recently, programming languages weren't
able to do that. With DCI, we can now use most professional programming
languages to achieve the object...
Mike Cottmeyer01/28/10
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In my post 'Organizational Myopia' we talked about an increasingly
common problem with the language we use. We 'talk' quite often like we
are delivering a cross-functional end-to-end feature of the overall
system, when in reality... we are really only...
Lyndsey Clevesy01/27/10
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Current Chair of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors and co-author of "Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great," Diana Larsen, talks to DZone about the Alliance's mission. She gives her perspective on the problems that decision-makers are...
Olga Kouzina01/27/10
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Bringing together agile philosophy and software development
outsourcing has been one of the hottest topics over the last decade.
Lots of blog posts, discussions
in social networks — people try to figure out for themselves if
it’s at all...
Nitin Bharti01/26/10
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Sometime in the last 40 years, object-oriented programming got lost.
Instead of producing code that can be understood by reading, it
produces code that can be explored only by tests. In this talk, recorded at Øredev 2009, Trygve Reenskaug,...
Kelly Waters01/26/10
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I recently came across this agile estimating experiment by Lance
Walton. The article is quite old now but I still found it very
interesting...In recent years, I've had quite a fascination with
the concept of velocity
and estimating
in points.To be...
Mitch Pronschinske01/25/10
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A new study by Forrester Research showed that nearly half of its developer and IT professional respondents use agile methods. The study is indicative of the increasing level of agile evangelism and enterprise adoption. If these numbers are an accurate...
Mike Cottmeyer01/25/10
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I published a post called "Why
is Agile so Hard to Sell?". If you haven't checked out the comment
thread, you should really take a look. Most of the comments were
really supportive and added serious value (no pun intended) to the...
James Sugrue01/25/10
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This weeks refcard covers Continuous Integration: Patterns and Anti-Patterns with tips on how to get started using continuous integration techniques in your project. I spoke with Paul Duvall, author of the refcard and CI expert about the benefits of...
Michael Dubakov01/22/10
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Everything has its life-cycle. Even stars. Even The Universe.
Everything.It is quite sad for intelligent creatures, but it is just a fact of
life. I want to draw some quite obvious parallels to reveal the real
danger of Technical Debt for a software...
Olga Kouzina01/21/10
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We’re all tied together by things we do. Projects we work on,
conferences we go to as a whole team, even bugs we fix together,
problems we solve together. Insights we share together.
Some people call it team spirit. Some people call it...
Lyndsey Clevesy01/20/10
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Founder and President of Industrial Logic, Joshua Kerievsky, has been a top player in the world of Agile since the 1990s. He talks here about what his company is currently doing to scale agile across large organizations. Kerievsky offers the DZone community...
Lyndsey Clevesy01/20/10
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Founder and President of Industrial Logic, Joshua Kerievsky, has been a top player in the world of Agile since the 1990s. He talks here about what his company is currently doing to scale agile across large organizations. Kerievsky offers the DZone community...
Lyndsey Clevesy01/20/10
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Agile consultant and book author, Esther Derby shares her expertise on the manager's role in work systems.
Lyndsey Clevesy01/20/10
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Johanna Rothman discusses her role as chairman of the Agile 2009 conference
and her experiences in agile consulting.
Ted Neward01/20/10
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Cruising the Web late last night, I ran across "10 things you can do to advance your career as a developer", summarized below: Build a PC Participate in an online forum and help others Man the help desk Perform field service Perform DBA functions...
Lyndsey Clevesy01/19/10
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Esther Derby is the president of her own agile consulting firm, Esther Derby Associates, Inc. She's doing the usual mix of workshops, coaching, and consulting as well as writing a book. Her book is about state-of-the-art management, which focuses not just...
