31st May - 28th JunMonthly Top Blog Posts on Agile Development
27 Jun
Save Your Job Release Your Code
Linus Torvalds, Yukihiro Matsumoto, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Larry Wall. They’re all famous software developers you may have heard of. If you haven’t heard of them, surely you know about some of their creations:…
26 Jun
How can I help?
Exactly two weeks ago, I received some bad news which will undoubtedly change my life - I have bowel cancer. At 41, I’m much too young to die and I’m pleased to say that I’m not likely to in the near future. Even…
25 Jun
Another Software Development Manager Blog
I happened across Jurgen Appelo’s blog, Managing Software Development recently. If you have room on your RSS list you might want to check it out.
24 Jun
Lean vs Agile
The Agile Manifesto (Link) was signed in 2001 by the key individuals involved in the development of the Agile Software movement and if you read it I think that it’s very clear that it belongs at a philosophical level,…
22 Jun
Waterfall Projects Create Naivete
I’ve been working with several clients on their transitions to agile–or at least, more agile approaches to their projects. In each case, the managers decided to move towards agile because the technical staff were in…
19 Jun
ProjectLocker Announces Technology Partnership with Rally Software
ProjectLocker announced a partnership with Rally Software in which it will build integrations for Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solutions. Future enhancements between Rally, Subversion source code management and…
18 Jun
Webcasts on EntLib4 and Unity
We are planning three webcasts on EntLib4 and Unity. Pencil in the tentative dates:. § Taking advantage of Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008 (Level 200 – Intro). July 10, 13:00-14:30pm Pacific…
17 Jun
HighTouch: Enterprise 2.0– working in the open
Which brings me to this Coding Horror post: Don’t Go Dark. I’m thinking there is much that old-school management can apply to their jobs that has been learned from the agile software development world:. Don’t go dark.…
We’re all ops people now
We now have networks and clusters of (virtual) machines, software so agile we need six decimal places to describe its revision levels, and network and authentication paths that are starting to tangle. How do we manage…
Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin - Jul. 11 - 13, 2008
by Jared Richardson. An overview of the Agile software approach from the book Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects. Maintaining Project Integrity with JDepend, Macker, PMD, Maven, and other open…
16 Jun
Quick Introduction To Agile Software Development - Enterprise Java Software Developer Station
In this article Prerana Patil gives us a rapid overview of the core ideas of Agile Software Development. The article talks of the features of agile, when to adopt it and when not to. It then goes on to describe the…
Measuring Process Improvements - Cycle Time? | Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean)
Many organizations make a few common mistakes with agile that cause this. If the work done inside each iteration is restricted to pure development work and everything else is done outside the iterations, then cycle time…
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 : The pre-conference conference
They all come together at one point: Application development can be incredibly fast when you use APEX, and that’s exactly what the business needs: short term to market and agile development. The IT departments have…
15 Jun
Test Driven Development — A cognitive justification
bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by rjocham to TDD - more about this bookmark…
14 Jun
Is Groovy Too Slow?
Is Groovy too slow? Certainly I found it too slow for intensive number crunching. Once I started to need multiple passes over every pixel in a 640×480 image for my image processing app things got to be too slow for my…
Best Buy tries its hand at being small.
His idea would focus on technology and software solutions developed by small teams or individuals within Best Buy (or failing that, using small teams or individuals from the outside). The first step would be to create…
10 Jun
Extreme Programming Adventures In C# (with source code)
For further practice and study, you can download all the author’s code—including missteps—so you can see XP and agile concepts in action and assess how they fit into your own work. This book is a chronicle of a…
Teampages seeks Senior Developer [Van]
Our developers practice agile development methodologies while working in Ruby on Rails. The Senior Developer will be responsible for supporting two of the chief development initiatives: enhancing site navigation and…
NOOP.NL: Managing Software Development: Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever
The Art of Agile Development. 69 Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike The Practice of Programming. 70 Ron Jeffries, etc. Extreme Programming Installed. 71 Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage Refactoring Databases:…
09 Jun
Use Case To Actor Mapping
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We know the importance of identifying the use cases that enable our business goals. We also know the value of understanding the actors that will use our products. This article shows how to demonstrate a simple but…
Agile Teams Don’t Need Managers
In agile development, managers are definitely still needed. There are so many organisational issues and activities that must be considered that have a much wider span than the team itself. Budget, contracts,…
08 Jun
Agile Open - it’s also for “structured” people 
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Agile Open Europe 2008 is over…This panorama photo of the introduction was made by Harald Walker, who volunteered to be our resident photographer. He’s already posted his impressions :). On thursday it was a bit…
07 Jun
Technical Architect (.Net) (Singapore), 7-12 years exp, Singapore
Experience in collaborative software development technologies, VSTS, Team Foundation Server and Agile programming. Experience in Microsoft Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation and Office Business…
Agility is great - until something goes wrong…
Don’t get me wrong - agile development is a fantastic concept, but this post over on Mike’s blog got me thinking about things a bit. His post related to the roll out of Gmail labs, in their release Google said that;…
Comment on Just enough Project Management? by Raza
. the stock exchange and are bombarded with change requests every week! There’s not much room to follow the SDLC strictly, and it ends up being an extremely AGILE development model - one that doesn’t always bring a…
06 Jun
A Better S Curve and Simplified EVM
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“S Curves” are great to track project spend. They are simple to interpret and quickly let us see if we are over or under budget. However, we could be doing fine spend wise, but behind from a schedule…
05 Jun
Gas Prices??
I almost never make a political comment. But having been born, raised and schooled in the Texas Panhandle where crude oil, refining, and petrochemicals are part of the culture I have some knowledge of the macroeconomics…
James Shore: Successful Software
04 Jun 2008 James Shore/Agile-Book in 99 wordsProduce working software every week, and demonstrate to stakeholders that you have
03 Jun
When the going gets tough or, how to improve your life as a developer
Change what you can change, but be willing to stand up for what you believe in. Special thanks to Sarah for reviewing and providing some great feedback for this post. :-). Technorati Tags: agile,software…
02 Jun
Economical trust
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Could we go the agile path to the possible extent (ie taking into account that hardware are harder to refactor, than software)? Technically we could formulate our goal loosely crush the walls, buy and install stuff,…
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