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Mark Needham03/16/10
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Parallel Pair Programming

I've spent a bit of time working with Les recently and it's been quite interesting working out the best way for us to pair together as he's working as a front end developer on the team which means he's best utilised working on the CSS/JavaScript/HTML side...

Nitin Bharti03/16/10
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Failure Modes in Scrum

In this presentation, recorded at Øredev 2009, Jens Østergaard examines why Scrum is so hard to implement. He discusses failure modes for Scrum Master,...

Olga Kouzina03/15/10
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Minimalism, The New Innovative

There’s so much room for observations and analogies in the evolution of production trends. Analogies are not merely a candy for the brain. They bring along a deeper understanding of phenomena and ultimately are one of the greatest aides to align (or...

Joshua Barnes03/15/10
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Process for development outside of IT

I recently finished creating the initial version of a process for developing “applications” by people outside of the IT area. Almost all companies have such development, where an end user develops something that is used in the business, without the...

Mitch Pronschinske03/12/10
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Perforce For NetBeans

Until Perforce creates its own VCS client for the NetBeans Platform, Tutuianu Aurelian will continue developing his contribution to the open source community: PerforceNB - a Perforce client for NetBeans. Aurelian has been developing in NetBeans since its...

Jurgen Appelo03/12/10
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Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time

Yesterday I had a bit of an argument on Twitter about differences between Scrum and Kanban. Personally I don't care which is better than the other, because I believe that all models are wrong, but some are useful.

Mark Needham03/11/10
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Does an organisation need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum?

Alan Atlas has a recent blog post where he discusses agile, lean and scrum and suggests that you can't truly achieve agility unless your company is fully committed to it which differs slightly from my experiences. Alan makes a valid point that we're not...

Giorgio Sironi03/11/10
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Acceptance Test-Driven Development

I am halfway through reading Growing object-oriented software, guided by tests, a book that teaches Test-Driven Development in a Java environment. A review will come soon, since the process described in this work is really language-agnostic and...

Kelly Waters03/11/10
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How To Be An Agile Leader

The strapline on this site - “Leading agile developers, Developing agile leaders” - is great! A really clever play on words. But it got me thinking. What is an agile leader? And how do we develop them?Some qualities are desirable in any leader, whether...

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/10
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Test Lint: A Unit Testing Helper for VS 2010

In an increasingly test-driven software industry, Typemock has successfully filled a growing niche market for unit testing productivity tools. Typemock offers enterprise tool suites along with a free set of tools. Recently, Typemock added a new free tool...

Mitch Pronschinske03/10/10
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JIRA Studio Now Integrated with Google Apps

Atlassian currently is in the process of migrating their employees from Zimbra to Google Apps to reflect their recent move to integrate JIRA Studio, their hosted SDL package, with the Google Apps suite. With the relaunch of the Google Apps Marketplace, JIRA...

Lyndsey Clevesy03/10/10
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ThoughtWorks Studios' ALM Tools and Suggested Best Practices with Chad Wathington

Chad Wathington is the VP of product development at ThoughtWorks Studios (TWS). TWS's Agile ALM tools include Mingle, Twist, and Cruise. Wathington says...

Jack Milunsky03/10/10
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Defects - The 7 Software Development Wastes

Introduction When one looks at all the wastes, defects has to be the most obvious one. The cost and repercussions of finding defects varies depending on where in the cycle they're found. Defects found early on in the development life-cycle are way less...

Mitch Pronschinske03/09/10
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VersionOne Expands Environment to All Stakeholders

A few months ago, DZone spoke with VersionOne CEO Robert Holler. Since 2002, when VersionOne appeared, Holler says their customer cases have grown from 5-20 person startups to 50-2,000 person enterprises. VersionOne's challenge has been to meet the...

Martin Fowler03/09/10
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VCS Survey

When I discussed VersionControlTools I said that it was an unscientific agglomeration of opinion. As I was doing it I realized that I could add some spurious but mesmerizing numbers to my analysis by doing a survey. Google's spreadsheet makes the ...