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Architexa 2.0 - A Different Take on UML

Architexa, a useful tool suite for generating UML diagrams, is entering version 2.0 this week.  The 2.0 version has boosted performance, collaboration, and is...

6 replies - 10675 views - 09/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Making Agile Work A Good Start Point for Devops

Many of the devops posts in this blog were written from a dev perspective. Today’s guest post by Peter McGarahan examines the topic from the ops...

0 replies - 1595 views - 09/23/10 by Israel Gat in News

So do we “build” software?

phew, August is finally over – no, no because we closed xsights, not even because my wife and I had to entertain 3 kids on vacation – it was the...

0 replies - 1741 views - 09/21/10 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in News

What Innovation Looks Like

Check out "End User 2.0: When Employees Have All The Answers" in InformationWeek. This is about adoption of non-approved technology. Think...

0 replies - 2030 views - 09/17/10 by Steven Lott in News

Serious Games!

For those of you who follow the Agile Games Google group, you may already be aware of my proposal to create a Serious Games Stage at Agile 2011. The...

0 replies - 1914 views - 09/17/10 by Michael Sahota in News

Let's Play TDD #7: Tax Rage

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0 replies - 749 views - 09/17/10 by James Shore in News

Daily Dose - Mylyn Becomes Top Level Project

After a major reorganization at the beginning of this year, the Eclipse Mylyn ALM (application lifecycle management) project has earned 'top level' status. ...

0 replies - 15248 views - 09/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Let's Play TDD #6: Capital Gains Tax--Almost

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0 replies - 815 views - 09/15/10 by James Shore in News

Study on benefits of TDD

OK, this isn’t news, this study came out a couple of years ago and was covered by many people then. But, I find myself regularly referring to it trying...

1 replies - 1739 views - 09/01/10 by Allan Kelly in News

Ultimate configurability

In Continuous Delivery the authors talk about the danger of ultimate configurability… Configurable software is not always the cheaper solution it appears...

0 replies - 1307 views - 08/26/10 by Mark Needham in News

Daily Dose - RabbitMQ 2.0 Upgrades to AMQP 0.9.1

The RabbitMQ messaging system, which was recently be acquired by VMware's SpringSource, has reached version 2.0.  The AMQP-based system has a new persister...

0 replies - 22609 views - 08/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Jonathan Lindo on Agile Architecture, DevOps, and Patents

The software industry is constantly trying to find the next-generation tools and methods that can make development, testing, and production more efficient. ...

0 replies - 7466 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

TinyPM, Big Release

TinyPM is a perfect tool (free for 5 users or less) for small to medium-sized agile projects with easy-to-use utilities for managing iterations, even in...

0 replies - 2650 views - 08/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

7 Ways to Humanize the Distributed Team Experience

If you are involved in a distributed software team, chances are you know just how difficult it is to create personal connections. This is especially true...

5 replies - 2462 views - 08/19/10 by David Bland in News

Database configuration: Just like any other change

I've been flicking through Continuous Deployment and one section early on about changing configuration information in our applications particularly caught my...

0 replies - 3254 views - 08/18/10 by Mark Needham in News