There are some technologies that have such strong "street cred", they are effectively untouchable. Anyone who dares imply that they are deficient in any way is...
31 replies - 29034 views - 12/03/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles
The software development process can be a complicated tango of deadlines, constraints, and expectations. Knowing this, companies must have an increased...
0 replies - 5255 views - 12/02/12 by Zac Gery in Articles
Here at DZone Headquarters, nearly every office has music playing all day, every day. The sales team (for obvious reasons) doesn't always follow this...
0 replies - 6632 views - 11/30/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
A while back I read Making Software – it made me disappointed at the state of academic research into the practice of developing software. I just read...
0 replies - 4724 views - 11/28/12 by David Green in Articles
People learn to program at entirely different times. For some, it's a hobby they picked up in their early teens. Others learned it at university in order to...
31 replies - 8740 views - 11/22/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
For this week's poll, we're taking a look at continuous integration servers and what we use them for. You'll get to review results instantly after submission....
1 replies - 7734 views - 11/15/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
This week, you get not one, but TWO weekly polls. One is displayed as usual, and will give instant results, like normal. It's at the bottom of this page and...
0 replies - 8445 views - 11/08/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
As far as I know, the bold suggestion of recommending 40 hours
working per week came from the XP community through the practice of Sustainable pace. ...
0 replies - 8987 views - 11/08/12 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles
Lately,
I have been doing some reading on Software Development practices and
came across a software development methodology called SEMAT, which
stands...
0 replies - 6514 views - 11/07/12 by Luis Atencio in Articles
Tomorrow is the general election day in the USA. If you've seen any of the debates or the rhetoric leading up to this year's election you've...
1 replies - 31963 views - 11/05/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Israel Gat, director of Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management practice, shares his thoughts on how technical debt can affect...
0 replies - 1413 views - 11/05/12 by Michael Muller in Articles
“As a topic of conversation, I find branching policies to be very
interesting”, “Branching is great fun!”, “I wish we could do more
branching”...
4 replies - 7333 views - 11/04/12 by James Betteley in Articles
Here’s another example of why language matters, and how the words we choose matter so much.
I tried to join the European Lean-Kanban tour, not in person,...
13 replies - 8316 views - 11/04/12 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
A few weeks ago, we asked which programming language you'd use if Java weren't an option. JVM languages, especially Scala and Groovy, were the overwhelming...
6 replies - 9168 views - 11/02/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles
I've posted a few times about the posts by John Allspaw and this is
another instance where I admire what he wrote and think it's worth
quoting a few...
0 replies - 3726 views - 10/30/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles
