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The Optimal Team Size is Five

What is the optimal size of a team?People have been trying to answer this question for ages, and there seems to be little consensus. At the SPA 2009 conference...

2 replies - 2968 views - 04/13/09 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Continuous Deployment? Or Continuously Deployable?

Eric Ries recently posted a nice little piece on Continuous Deployment. In it, he describes the process used at IMVU where all code that's written for an...

2 replies - 8981 views - 04/09/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

3 Reasons Why I Wouldn't Do Agile Software Development

Agile software development has been a revelation for me. It has brought me and my teams much success, and a very rewarding working environment.Sometimes I...

0 replies - 1580 views - 03/25/09 by Kelly Waters in News

Why I don't use standard user story format that much

Agile requirements are different from the traditional ones and are usually defined as user stories that allow for slicing functionality in the shippable...

0 replies - 2170 views - 03/20/09 by Artem Marchenko in News

Zero Defects? Are You Kidding Me?

Are you familiar with zero defects mentality? It looks very good from the first sight. Zero defects... Let me think... Well, cool! I like it! I’d like to...

0 replies - 1484 views - 03/20/09 by Michael Dubakov in News

Electric Cloud Delivers Missing Ingredient to Continuous Integration with ElectricCommander Version 3.0

Electric Cloud® today announced that it is making the agile best practice of  "continuous integration" truly scalable and reliable with the newest...

0 replies - 1316 views - 09/16/08 by Lisa Sheeran in Announcements

Secretaries Make the Best ScrumMasters

Okay... so my writing is slowing down again. I came of weeks of preparing for Agile 2008 and now am in the thick of getting ready for the APLN Leadership...

0 replies - 9992 views - 09/07/08 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Agile Development: why it rocks, who it helps, and why it's failing

The Agile method was the best thing that happened to me in my career as a developer. Before I came across Agile, one of my biggest frustrations was the...

3 replies - 5726 views - 08/27/08 by Sara Chipps in News

Lean Software Development

While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver...

0 replies - 13323 views - 08/26/08 by Jay Fields in News

A Theory of Everything for Software Development

If there's one thing that all software development experts agree on, it's that the other experts are not always right. There are so many points of view in our...

0 replies - 3395 views - 08/21/08 by Jurgen Appelo in News

I'm thinking of using agile software development - but should I use Lean software development instead?

This question is one I've run into a few times recently. It's not a question I can answer quickly as the question is based on a false premise about the...

0 replies - 4246 views - 08/19/08 by Martin Fowler in News

ASP.NET Design Patterns, Test Driven Development and Agile Development Book List

[img_assist|nid=3823|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=200|height=260]I've been collecting book recommendations on software design principles and...

1 replies - 9562 views - 06/30/08 by Stephen Walther in News