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Do You Like Pain?

I have a co-worker who's never happy. Never. But today it's even worse. He just lost an hour or two of his work. He was writing code that deleted a large...

6 replies - 19498 views - 04/29/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Continuous Integration and the "Cup of Coffee" Test

Paul Julius is an independent consultant who has recently worked with many companies to implement continuous integration at the enterprise level.  He also has...

0 replies - 3554 views - 04/27/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Moving to Test-Driven Development and Exploring Language Paradigms

Michael Feathers defines legacy code as "code without tests."  There's a major qualitative difference when working on code without tests. ...

0 replies - 6838 views - 04/26/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

The Pitfalls of Agile Going Mainstream

Jared Richardson says that agile is going mainstream in many areas, but many companies have only made a partial agile transformation which Richardson calls...

0 replies - 2938 views - 04/22/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

The Best Way to Keep Your Product Moving Forward

There are so many tools available today that claim to magically clean up your code....

0 replies - 7744 views - 04/22/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Hard Stop Iterations: No Where to Hide!

One of biggest problems with the traditional waterfall model is simply it's length. It's a lot more difficult to understand how things went off the tracks when...

4 replies - 5364 views - 04/21/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

3x5 Cards: What a Waste!

3x5 cards, sometimes Post-It notes, are a mocked, and often ignored, tool. We're an enterprise. We're a real company. We don't use anything as ridiculous as...

0 replies - 7882 views - 04/20/10 by Jared Richardson in Articles

Caution: Metrics change behavior

Measuring and reporting are important I've often heard said, "That which you cannot measure, you cannot improve." And while I do believe this is a general...

1 replies - 696 views - 04/19/10 by Michael Norton in News

Dealing with Distributed Agile Teams

Zach Nies is the VP of products at Rally Software, an Agile coaching and tooling company.  He says that as soon as you have development teams working on...

0 replies - 918 views - 04/12/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Stories are about why; not what or how

Story Fomats I've been on numerous Agile projects with varying methods for capturing stories. Quite popular (and purportedly the ThoughtWorks standard)...

1 replies - 839 views - 04/08/10 by Michael Norton in Articles

Getting Started with Lean Software Development

Download Your Free Copy of DZone's Latest Refcard on Lean Software Development!  The specific practices outlined in this DZone Refcard provide a step-by-step...

0 replies - 27990 views - 04/05/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements

Exclusive Excerpt - Lean Vs. Agile

This excerpt was taken from The Art of Lean Software Development, which was written by Curt Hibbs, Steve Jewett, and Mike Sullivan. These three authors also...

0 replies - 4261 views - 04/05/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles

Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (April 16 & 17, Raleigh-Durham, NC)

The Open Information Foundation, co-founded by Jeffrey Fredrick and Paul Julius, presents CITCON North America 2010 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. CITCON...

0 replies - 18941 views - 04/01/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements

Programming Paradigms; The Future of Software Development

The tool chain and the development choices have become much more complex.  In this interview, Dave Thomas gives his unique, experienced perspective on today's...

0 replies - 10046 views - 03/22/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Robert Holler on the Evolution of Agile

The CEO of VersionOne, Robert Holler, began one of the most successful agile management software companies in 2001 before it was widely accepted. In the early...

0 replies - 5820 views - 03/08/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos