Let's start with question which does not really matter for software development: how much flour should I put in my pastries?The complex answer is that it...
6 replies - 7843 views - 12/23/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
A fundamental question of software development is: can we trade quality, sacrificing all we know about writing clean code, to gain time?This expression means,...
9 replies - 7050 views - 12/14/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
The post today was brought to you by... my hellish commute and those in the Washington DC metropolitan area who help create it. Thanks!
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0 replies - 365 views - 12/03/10 by Derek Huether in News
rPath, the service factory for on-demand IT, and CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, today announced a...
0 replies - 3620 views - 11/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements
Docblocks (in the PHP inflection), also known as Javadoc or doc comments in the Java world, are regarded as one of the few types of acceptable comments that...
5 replies - 7176 views - 11/25/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
The Unified Modelling Language (version 2, usually) is a set of semi-formal notations that can be used to express aspects of software design in a graphical...
5 replies - 20184 views - 11/18/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
I once heard a speaker saying that Lego bricks are one of the most abused metaphor in computer science. I like this quote very much, but I also like the Lego...
8 replies - 19490 views - 11/11/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Let's start with a definition of Lean software development:Lean software development is a translation of Lean manufacturing and Lean IT principles and...
0 replies - 3400 views - 11/08/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
User stories are the basic units of work for Agile methodologies. They describe features to implement in a system and are one of the primary artifact generated...
2 replies - 7926 views - 10/26/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Four Reasons Medical Device Companies need agile development
The waterfall style of development is so deeply engrained into the culture of medical companies...
1 replies - 3931 views - 10/22/10 by Mike Dobbles in Articles
Do you remember the "gossip game" we played in elementary school? Our teacher would give one person a sentence or two and ask them to repeat it to...
0 replies - 13327 views - 10/13/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
0 replies - 4112 views - 10/12/10 by Nick Winfield in Book Reviews
Ahh, famous last words of the close-minded programmer. Solutions abound for automating the build process in software projects: Ant, Gant, Maven, Gradle, Rake,...
7 replies - 14204 views - 10/08/10 by Matt Stine in Articles
The Agile Tour is in Philadelphia, DC, and RTP this month!
There's an international conference known...
0 replies - 1548 views - 10/08/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
There's an international conference known as the The Agile Tour It's had a number of events all over the world, and now it's gaining traction in the United...
0 replies - 3748 views - 10/08/10 by Jared Richardson in Announcements
