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Distributed Agile: Communicating Big Design Decisions

Although we mostly split the work on my project so that there aren't too many dependencies between the teams in Chicago and Pune, there have still been...

1 replies - 3394 views - 11/11/10 by Mark Needham in Articles

“Pushbutton” Deployment of Windows/.NET Apps - Videos and Resources

rPath extends its Linux release automation strength to Windows applicationsDeploying .NET and other Windows Applications is complex, time-consuming and...

0 replies - 4580 views - 11/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Reuse Myth - can you afford reusable code?

In my Agile Business Conference present (“How much quality can we afford?”) I talked about the Reuse Myth, this is something always touch on when I deliver...

11 replies - 18209 views - 11/05/10 by Allan Kelly in News

Key insights that you probably missed on DDD

As suggested by its name, Domain-Driven Design is not only about Event Sourcing and CQRS. It all starts with the domain and a lot of key insights that are...

2 replies - 4285 views - 11/02/10 by cyrille martraire in News

Motivating the Unmotivated

I read a post recently from teknophyl entitled "Motivating the Unmotivated". He asked me to read it and give him some feedback. I started a reply...

2 replies - 2445 views - 11/01/10 by Michael Norton in News

Training Software Professionals

The SlidesHere is the slide deck to my SCNA talk, "Training Software Professionals, Just What the Doctor Ordered". In the past, my slide decks...

1 replies - 3432 views - 10/29/10 by Michael Norton in News

Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 and Supporting Tools Launch

The GA releases of Spring Roo 1.1, GWT 2.1, STS 2.5, and new AspectJ and AJDT versions have been launched this week after many months of synchronized...

0 replies - 22727 views - 10/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Technical Debt

Love this from Gartner. "Gartner Estimates Global 'IT Debt' to Be $500 Billion This Year, with Potential to Grow to $1 Trillion by...

0 replies - 2253 views - 10/20/10 by Steven Lott in News

Zombie (Team Member) Motivation Techniques

What skills do you need to lead your zombie army?  Sorry, what I meant to ask was, what skills do you need to lead your team?  Motivation...

2 replies - 6600 views - 10/14/10 by Derek Huether in Articles

Puppet Labs Assimilates MCollective Config Tech

Puppet Labs, the company behind the configuration management tool Puppet, has just acquired the Marionette Collective.  Also known as MCollective, the...

0 replies - 8050 views - 10/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Learning from Others

Foursquare had a well discussed outage last week. This wasn't good news for Foursquare but it can be for the rest of us. By looking at what happened, we...

0 replies - 2080 views - 10/11/10 by Dan Pritchett in News

Technical Debt

Love this from Gartner. "Gartner Estimates Global 'IT Debt' to Be $500 Billion This Year, with Potential to Grow to $1 Trillion by...

0 replies - 658 views - 10/08/10 by Steven Lott in News

Bad Programmer, Bad Process Or Bad Education

A few articles in the past week prompted some thinking about the industry of software development. In this case, when I say software development, I am...

4 replies - 8352 views - 10/07/10 by Robert Diana in News

Sending Logs Down the Flume

I've been looking at Flume in depth and it is a very powerful and useful platform that solves several operational problems at once. And the best part is...

1 replies - 5256 views - 10/04/10 by Dan Pritchett in News

Daily Dose - Chromium OS on the iPad

A developer who provides nightly Chromium builds has managed to port Google's Chromium OS to the iPad.  He posted a picture of the iPad's web page running in...

0 replies - 20679 views - 09/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose