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Why Excel Spreadsheets Hurt Project Management

Today was a great day. I helped import our entire “roadmap” of functional requirements from an Excel spreadsheet into Pivotal Tracker. Even though we...

3 replies - 4753 views - 07/21/11 by Daniel Ackerson in News

Storytelling in IT - Conversation matters

  Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ." implies that consensus is often the result of a coincidence...

0 replies - 7954 views - 07/20/11 by Patrick Debois in News

Continuous Delivery in Practice

A couple of months ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Thoughtworks live 2011 event in London. The main topics of this event were agile (as...

0 replies - 3863 views - 07/19/11 by James Betteley in News

How to return default(Type) in runtime – a TDD example in four unit tests

I’ve found this question while going over my old StackOverflow answers:I'm using reflection to loop through a Type's properties and set certain types to...

1 replies - 6373 views - 07/18/11 by Dror Helper in News

Greasemonkey script for CI system

Here in Caplin Towers (it’s not really called that) we’ve got a couple of projectors displaying the Continuous Integration builds up on the walls....

0 replies - 3101 views - 07/15/11 by James Betteley in News

Continuous Integration: The Last Mile

Conquering the Last Mile I went to the London C.I. Meetup recently where Gus Power (how he chose a career in I.T. and not as a pro-wrestler with a name like...

2 replies - 8067 views - 07/14/11 by James Betteley in News

Developing and Testing in the Cloud

There’s a lot of hype around “the Cloud” and what it can do.One of the things that I am interested in is Cloud solutions that can help small software...

3 replies - 14376 views - 07/12/11 by Jim Bird in News

Do you have a DevOps Culture?

A lot of Sysadmins and developers all over the world write, meet and talk about DevOps: How to collaborate better so we can deliver business value...

0 replies - 7142 views - 07/08/11 by Matthias Marschall in News

Version Control And Deployment Of Cron Jobs

A recent question on Twitter prompted me to write a quick blog post about managing cron jobs. As more and more people want to automate provisioning and...

0 replies - 7721 views - 07/07/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

Agile Architecture according to Dan North

Last year at QCon, I attended a full-day tutorial titled "Secrets of Agile Architecture" hosted by Dan North. I didn't really know what to expect,...

0 replies - 2732 views - 07/03/11 by Dennis Doomen in News

Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience

0 replies - 9777 views - 06/30/11 by James Sugrue in Book Reviews

DevOps Isn't A Methodology

I was reading Devops is a poorly executed scam and just couldn’t resist a reply. Not because of the entertaining title, but because I both agree and...

2 replies - 6376 views - 06/29/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News

Between Agile and ITIL

You do not need to be an expert in Value Stream Mapping to appreciate the power of speeding up deployment to match the pace of Agile development. By...

0 replies - 3102 views - 06/27/11 by Israel Gat in News

What I like (and don't like) about DevOps

I’ve spent a lot of time in my career working on problems that cross the lines between development and operations. That’s why I am interested in the...

1 replies - 10848 views - 06/24/11 by Jim Bird in News

TDD adapted for mere mortals

I’ve been teaching and practicing agile for several years and there is definitely a problem with TDD: People find it very difficult to use. I believe...

16 replies - 7344 views - 06/24/11 by kent tong in News