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An Iteration Zero for Project Recovery: Starting Again Without Starting Over

In my post a few weeks back on How to Start the Next Recovery Project I asserted that I will take the following four steps the next time I take on a...

0 replies - 1227 views - 07/21/10 by Peter Schuh in News

You Are Your Software's Immune System!

The vertebrate immune system rivals the most intricately engineered security system on a bad day, detecting and destroying most microorganisms that we...

0 replies - 8824 views - 07/20/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Go Replaces Cruise - Aligns Devs, QA, and Ops

It turns out that ThoughtWorks Studios' former Cruise product is getting more than just a name change.  DZone spoke with Jez Humble, the Build and Release...

0 replies - 5215 views - 07/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Managing Risk on Agile Projects with the Risk Burndown Chart

Risk management is a central part of traditional project management and is included as one of the knowledge areas in the Project Management Institute’s...

0 replies - 4355 views - 07/19/10 by Mike Cohn in News

Waterfall vs. Agile: QA and Management

We saw in the previous articles the main differences between agile and waterfall. In this last article we are going to take a deeper look focusing on Quality...

1 replies - 23987 views - 07/19/10 by Alberto Gutierrez in Articles

Estimating Work Shared Between Two Backlog Items

Product backlog items can be ideally written to be independent. It is the hallmark of a good team that its members can implement product backlog items in...

1 replies - 969 views - 07/19/10 by Mike Cohn in News

Does (PURE) XP work for non trivial software in most practical scenarios?

Some of the XP practices don’t seem to be practical for non trivial software. No written requirements: - For a long running development say 2-3 years how...

0 replies - 1576 views - 07/17/10 by Saket Agrawal in News

Video: Building Automated Testing Infrastructure

Using tools like SeleNesse for .NET, Dawn Cannan has allowed companies to shorten the feedback loop between testers and developers, and set up the tools for...

0 replies - 3610 views - 07/16/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Serious Problems? Use A3 Technique to Nail ‘em!

This post shows the A3 technique and how it is an effective management tool. The contents of this post are my summary of THE BOOK on this subject: Managing to...

1 replies - 1857 views - 07/15/10 by Michael Sahota in News

Video: Keys to Successful Agile Adoption

Developers can benefit from agile if they are looking for more project visibility, better quality standards, or faster time-to-market. Agile also helps teams...

0 replies - 2748 views - 07/15/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Interview: Alan Shalloway on Lean Agile Software Development, Part Two

Today I'm privileged to share with you the remainder of an interview that I conducted with Alan Shalloway (you can read part one here). I first encountered...

0 replies - 2095 views - 07/15/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

What Does It Mean to Be Agile?

Laurie Williams, a professor at North Carolina State University, recently conducted a survey to find out which principles and...

1 replies - 2764 views - 07/14/10 by Mike Cohn in News

Mingle Meets JIRA and Mercurial

A boatload of extensions have docked at Mingle's port.  Today, ThoughtWorks Studio's agile project management platform is getting an integration overhaul that...

0 replies - 6960 views - 07/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Cross-Functional Teams Don't Come Free

How should people be grouped together? Basically there are two main options to choose from: group people by similar function or by similar business. Grouping...

1 replies - 2730 views - 07/13/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Web applications as enterprise software

Usually I have no shame in using PHP for everything I do as a freelancer, because it's the language I and the people I work with know best. PHP however is a...

1 replies - 5242 views - 07/13/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles