
Test automation is not a controversial topic in most circles. Even developers who don't write automated tests agree it's a great idea. They just don't have...
0 replies - 16261 views - 08/04/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Last week, Moss Colum and Laura Dean gave the Boston Software Craftsmanship group a sneak peak of their Agile 2010 Pairing Games as Intentional Practice...
0 replies - 2846 views - 08/04/10 by Abby Fichtner in News

A recent comment on one of my blog posts asked about the difference between agile user stories, themes, epics, and features, and about the relationship, or...
1 replies - 4489 views - 08/03/10 by Kelly Waters in News

Today is the debut of our "Getting Started with Kanban for Software Development" Refcard, which should give you a better understanding of this work...
0 replies - 5759 views - 08/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Kanban has been sweeping through the agile software development space leaving many a confused practitioner in its wake. Is it hype? Or is it a useful tool that...
1 replies - 6617 views - 08/01/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Job adverts often pay lip service to terms such as “must be
proactive”, or “self motivated” and various other platitudes. Yet...
1 replies - 1613 views - 08/01/10 by Wille Faler in News

Alistair Cockburn once stated that Scrum is a mirror, and that organizations need to look into the Scrum mirror no matter how difficult it may be.
I would...
0 replies - 1476 views - 07/30/10 by David Bland in News

We're now four episodes in to The Agile Guerilla series. The focus of this series of articles is to to help you introduce change, specifically moving to...
0 replies - 6618 views - 07/29/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

I’m sitting on a train from York so it seems a good time to share my
train-leaving-the-station metaphor with the world. In truth, if you’ve
worked...
0 replies - 1448 views - 07/29/10 by Allan Kelly in News

I recently stumbled across an amazing article. I've been using continuous integration for years, and I've used continuous deployment for a long time, but I've...
6 replies - 12604 views - 07/28/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

I've continually run into the same meme for the past several days, that of the absolute importance of rapid feedback to continuous improvement and sustainable...
0 replies - 7997 views - 07/28/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Do you ever get so frustrated you feel like pulling your hair out? I
do (although that is NOT a picture of me to the left!). If you look at
my pictures...
0 replies - 1845 views - 07/28/10 by Bob Hartman in News

Many product backlogs are too long, detailed and complex. This is in
stark contrast to what the product backlog should be: a simple artefact
listing the...
0 replies - 2434 views - 07/27/10 by Roman Pichler in News

Everyone on an
agile team is a tester. Anyone can pick up testing tasks. If that’s true, then
what is special about an agile tester? If I define myself as...
0 replies - 10048 views - 07/26/10 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

For some of us, taking an Agile approach to software development is easy. But for others, particularly companies who are established in a waterfall based...
1 replies - 8175 views - 07/26/10 by James Sugrue in Articles