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In Defense of Scrum (Please Stop Pissing on It)

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...

1 replies - 2354 views - 03/08/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Having Your Cake... Some Thoughts Around Scrum Certification

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...

0 replies - 1131 views - 03/08/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Mylyn Expands

Today, the Eclipse Mylyn project is announcing a major restructuring with the creation of several different sub-projects for each key Application Lifecycle...

2 replies - 22068 views - 03/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Blue Green Deployment

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...

0 replies - 13515 views - 03/05/10 by Martin Fowler in News

(fr)Agile Teams: Handle with Care

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...

1 replies - 9578 views - 03/04/10 by Michael Dubakov in News

Alternatives to Acceptance Testing

My essay on the problems with acceptance testing caused a bit of a furor. (Gojko Adzic, George Dinwiddie, Ron Jeffries.) The biggest criticism was...

1 replies - 11825 views - 03/03/10 by James Shore in News

Tips to Not Get Shot Down When Introducing Agile

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...

0 replies - 10425 views - 03/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Mark Crowe on VersionOne

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...

0 replies - 10484 views - 03/02/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Twist 2.0: Test Automation in BDD - Now with Groovy

A lot of organizations transitioning to agile are focused on getting planning and communication practices in place, but they tend to neglect engineering...

0 replies - 14277 views - 03/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Modeling in the age of Agility

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...

0 replies - 3878 views - 03/01/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Architecting the Enterprise with Savara

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...

0 replies - 9675 views - 03/01/10 by Steve Ross-talbot in Articles

Agile + UX

Kai Gilb started a series of posts that challenge Agile Software Development. Part 2 is about creativity and “how well” focus in software development....

2 replies - 1113 views - 03/01/10 by Michael Dubakov in News

Large-Scale Agile

There's been interest in "scaling Agile" since the beginning of the movement, but most of the early discussion was theoretical. There wasn't ...

3 replies - 2948 views - 02/26/10 by James Shore in News

What Developers Can Expect from Microsoft

In order to stay competitive with Oracle and IBM in the development tools arena, Microsoft has plans to invest and continue investing in several key areas...

6 replies - 5349 views - 02/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Elegance is an Attitude

Recently I’ve come across a post on harmfulness of analogies with martial arts. Indeed, there’s a handful of posts comparing software development, or...

1 replies - 1068 views - 02/25/10 by Olga Kouzina in News