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So, Now You're An Agilist... What's Next? (video)

This is another video of a talk that I did in Cluj, Romania. Like the one I posted last week, it was organized by the Transylvania Java User Group and...

0 replies - 890 views - 05/07/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Mario Cardinal on Layered Architectures

Mario Cardinal believes there should be more focus on Layers and their interfaces rather than objects.  One of the tools in Visual Studio's Team Foundation is...

1 replies - 3495 views - 05/06/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

On design process

After publishing the article Redesign process of JankoAtWarpSpeed, I was criticized by some people that I used Scrum "improperly". This...

1 replies - 801 views - 05/06/10 by Janko Jovanovic in News

The Evolution of Continuous Integration (Video)

Continuous integration evolved from the daily build.  In the late nineties and early 2000's, Continuous Integration evolved out of eXtreme Programming and...

0 replies - 2381 views - 05/05/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

What if I'm Not the Constraint?

What if you are a manager that wants to do Scrum? You ask yourself if it's possible to encapsulate the entire value stream into a single Scrum team? What...

0 replies - 740 views - 05/05/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Managers As Cheerleaders, or Why Charts Matter

Most developers think that graphs and charts are for weak-minded managers who like pretty colors. And they couldn't be more wrong. The problem is actually the...

0 replies - 8909 views - 05/05/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Continuous Integration

Jay Flowers says that in setting up a CI system, many organizations want to 'recreate the wheel'.  Tools like CI factory can take care of that initial setup...

0 replies - 2327 views - 05/04/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Enough Kanban! Use XP for Single-piece flow

Arlo Belshee and Jim Shore had an interesting pair presentation on titled “Single Piece Flow in Kanban” at LSSC10. A more accurate (although...

1 replies - 2507 views - 05/04/10 by Michael Sahota in News

Evolution of a programmer

As a software developer, it's common to learn new practices every day. Although there are jokes about how the more a programmer ages, the more his lines of...

4 replies - 21254 views - 05/04/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

The Importance of Build and Release Automation

Jez Humble says that last mile between development completion and production can be expensive and painstaking because teams aren't always prepared for it. ...

0 replies - 3649 views - 05/03/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Are You Smart or Dumb?

What's the difference in smart and dumb? I've come to believe it's two things. How far ahead you can think into the future and how quickly you can do that...

13 replies - 11844 views - 05/03/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

The Schizophrenia of Scrum

I sometimes get the feeling that there are two versions of Scrum. The first version is the one that says that “Scrum is not a methodology, a defined...

1 replies - 1940 views - 04/30/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Automation in Lean Software Development

Jeffrey Fredrick is an internationally recognized CI expert and a technical evangelist at Urban Code.  In this interview, Fredrick discusses how a software...

0 replies - 1178 views - 04/29/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Do You Like Pain?

I have a co-worker who's never happy. Never. But today it's even worse. He just lost an hour or two of his work. He was writing code that deleted a large...

6 replies - 19522 views - 04/29/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Agile Estimating in Scrum - Why Estimate Twice?

In my series of posts "How to Implement Scrum in 10 Easy Steps", I refer to two stages of estimating:Step 2 is how to estimate your Product...

1 replies - 2766 views - 04/29/10 by Kelly Waters in News