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5 Big Scrum Questions – Issue 4

This is the final issue of James Brett‘s 5 Questions. Issue 1 featured Ron Jefferies, Issue 2 featured Ken Schwaber, and Issue 3 featured...

0 replies - 4025 views - 05/05/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

Joy Spring and Estimated Deadlines

I remember how eager I was earlier this year to hear what Phil, the prophetic groundhog, would predict about when spring would come.  It doesn't come...

0 replies - 2062 views - 05/05/13 by Olga Kouzina in Articles

5 Big Scrum Questions – Issue 3

This is the third issue of James Brett‘s 5 Questions. Issue 1 featured Ron Jefferies, and Issue 2 featured Ken Schwaber. From the first...

1 replies - 3256 views - 05/04/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

Remember to Experiment

This is mostly a note to myself that will probably come back and reference/update from time to time.  Remember to Experiment Do not forget this....

0 replies - 2728 views - 05/03/13 by Mahdi Yusuf in Articles

Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 4

I’m still chugging along, making great progress. I took some interruptions yesterday, as many people do. They are not reflected on my kanban. They are in my...

0 replies - 1314 views - 05/02/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Assumptions Were Made for Testing

Here’s another extract from my book-in-progress “The Programmers Guide To People”, the first few chapters should be available at the end of May on...

2 replies - 3427 views - 05/02/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles

Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 3

I’ve been busy crossing work off my list. And, as with all of us busy people, I’m adding more work to my list. I feel as if I’ve accomplished a lot this...

0 replies - 3225 views - 05/02/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Dependency Inversion Principle in the Wild

There's a brand new article on the Dependency Inversion Principle, a technique defined by Bob Martin in 1994, on Martin Fowler's blog.  Here's the...

0 replies - 1314 views - 05/02/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 1

I use a form of personal kanban inside one-week iterations to finish my work and notice what I am not doing. I do this to maintain a cadence of blogging and to...

2 replies - 8540 views - 05/01/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 2

I’ve made great progress on Day 1, and I wasn’t even in the office all day! You can see I’ve added more todos, at the bottom of my queue. I discovered...

0 replies - 2800 views - 04/30/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

The Component Test

A component test is a test that limits the scope of the exercised software to a portion of the system under test. It is in contrast to a BroadStackTest that's...

0 replies - 4156 views - 04/29/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles

Business Facing Test

A business-facing test is a test that's intended to be used as an aid to communicating with the non-programming members of a development team such as...

1 replies - 3123 views - 04/28/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles

Adding Diff Syntax Highlighting to Sublime Text

My chosen color scheme for Sublime Text doesn't include support for diff/patch files, so I added my own.To the bottom of my .tmTheme file, I added this just...

0 replies - 4659 views - 04/27/13 by Rob Allen in Articles

Lean from the Trenches - Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

Lean from the Trenches from Øredev Conference on Vimeo.Find out how the Swedish police combined Kanban, Scrum, and XP in a 60-person project. This is a...

0 replies - 1740 views - 04/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Future of Testing and Quality

Future of Testing and Quality from Øredev Conference on Vimeo. If you feel lost and confused, and even ready to give up – do not despair. First – you...

0 replies - 2151 views - 04/25/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles