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Is the Apple JVM an "Extra Feature?"

Recently Apple announced that it was deprecating its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation. Ten years after promising to "make the Mac the best Java...

11 replies - 6653 views - 11/03/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

DZone's Top 10 Agile and Lean Development Books

Developers typically have one or more indispensable books that they have always kept close at hand when diving deep into the coding realm.  But which ones are...

0 replies - 14598 views - 09/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Modular Agile: Loosely coupled, highly cohesive ceremonies

I'm giving a talk these days on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour entitled "Yes You Kanban." Toward the end of that talk I do a brief compare and contrast...

0 replies - 4110 views - 09/23/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Waste #7: Defects

Welcome to the final episode of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste...

3 replies - 11900 views - 09/20/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Waste #6: Task Switching

Welcome to episode six of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste from...

3 replies - 15367 views - 09/15/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Lean Principles #2 - Build Quality In

In my previous post about lean software development, I explained Lean Principles #1 - Eliminate Waste. Quality issues result in all sorts of waste. That's...

1 replies - 3142 views - 09/14/10 by Kelly Waters in News

Waste #5: Delays

Welcome to episode five of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste from...

0 replies - 12666 views - 09/12/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Waste #4: Handoffs

Welcome to episode four of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste from...

0 replies - 14204 views - 09/07/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Waste #3: Relearning

Welcome to episode three of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste...

0 replies - 14669 views - 08/30/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Waste #2: Extra Features

Welcome to episode three of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste...

1 replies - 14138 views - 08/23/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Waste #1: Partially Done Work

Welcome to episode two of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In episode one, we introduced the concept of eliminating waste from...

1 replies - 19548 views - 08/20/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

7 Key Principles of Lean Software Development

I haven't blogged much about lean development. I'm not an expert on lean, but agile development is a great example of lean thinking in action. So I...

0 replies - 3371 views - 08/20/10 by Kelly Waters in News

The Seven Wastes of Software Development

Today I'd like to start a brand new series, the focus of which is the elimination of waste from our software development efforts. Waste elimination can be...

5 replies - 36228 views - 08/11/10 by Matt Stine in Articles

Agile 2010 Keynote - The Last 10 Years of Agile, a Retrospective

Dave Thomas, Founder and Chairman of Bederra Research Labs, gave the keynote this morning at Agile 2010 here in Orlando, FL. He spoke on the benefits of...

0 replies - 2793 views - 08/10/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles

Explaining Kanban to Scrum Adopters

Today is the debut of our "Getting Started with Kanban for Software Development" Refcard, which should give you a better understanding of this work...

0 replies - 5759 views - 08/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles