As we revisit the Agile Manifesto, we come to the often ignored line "customer collaboration over contract negotiation," and we all say "Well...
0 replies - 7781 views - 05/31/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
We're revisiting the Agile Manifesto in this series of articles, and this item is always of great interest to me. Would anyone ever make a conscious decision...
0 replies - 4064 views - 05/26/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
0 replies - 2224 views - 05/26/10 by Michele Mauro in Book Reviews
The Agile Manifesto is one of the most admired and ignored documents around. So many claim to be "Agile", then their actions tell us they are...
0 replies - 8212 views - 05/26/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
User stories are the substitute of formal requirements documents in an agile environment: they are short summaries of a functionality that leave space to...
1 replies - 9666 views - 05/25/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
There's a famous quote from the United States Supreme Court a few years ago. They were trying to determine what was art and what was pornography. Lawyers being...
4 replies - 11850 views - 05/20/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
Working on several agile teams, Patrick Boudreaux has learned many lessons, but the biggest take-away has been that there's no 'one right way' to do anything,...
0 replies - 1133 views - 05/19/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos
Every so often someone writes an article talking about what great code,
or beautiful software, is (or insert some other superlative.) And,
surprise!...
10 replies - 16083 views - 05/17/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
The agile crowd always bashes waterfall. It's silly. It's dumb. It's
guaranteed to fail. But waterfall is responsible for most of the
software available...
6 replies - 7084 views - 05/14/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
Agile provides a great deal of freedom, and because of that it's often percieved as being, well, free. A manager I worked with told his leadership team than...
1 replies - 1951 views - 05/13/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
From time to time I get email from
people in various stages of Agile adoption, asking for advice or tips. Last
week one sounded particularly desperate. With...
3 replies - 5349 views - 05/11/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
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
Following on from the success of last year, this annual event for the UK's enterprise software architect community will have architectural innovation as a...
0 replies - 2756 views - 05/05/10 by Wendy Devolder in Announcements
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 - 11848 views - 05/03/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles
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
