Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

PHP and Flash Integration

Learn how to create real-time collaborative apps with PHP and LiveCycle Collaboration Services.

Lean Teams: Doing More With Less

This evening I attended the Denver Rails User Group (a.k.a. DeRailed) to hear a presentation by Marty Haught. It was titled "Lean Teams: Doing more with...

0 replies - 2272 views - 09/24/09 by Matt Raible in Articles

ThoughtWorks Offers Free Upgrades for Twist and Cruise Products

ThoughtWorks Studios today announced new versions of its Twist test management and Cruise release management products. Together with Mingle, an Agile project...

0 replies - 622 views - 09/22/09 by CodeJustin in News

Building Better Burn-Down Charts

As a developer you have just finished your latest bit of code and have released it to the test team. It took a little longer than you thought it would but...

0 replies - 4488 views - 09/22/09 by rperfect in Articles

The Kano Model - Measuring Agile Value

In all the Scrum literature, there is much rhetoric on focusing on delivering value but there is very little explanation on how you calculate it. Exactly how...

0 replies - 452 views - 09/21/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

The Only Person Keeping You From Going Agile Is You

If you are interested in going Agile, but you are surrounded by folks that are not, don’t despair. You can still experience significant benefit from Agile...

0 replies - 336 views - 09/21/09 by damonpoole in Articles

Exclusive Interview: IBM's Chief Agile Methodologist, Scott Ambler

In this interview, recorded at the recent Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, Scott Ambler, Chief Methodologist for Agile at IBM Rational, shares his findings...

0 replies - 8381 views - 09/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Scrum and Kanban: Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter

This post is primarily geared toward folks who have been doing Scrum for at least 6-9 months and are curious about what options are out there for further...

1 replies - 487 views - 09/16/09 by damonpoole in Articles

Holistic Agility: Thoughtworks Studios' Cyndi Mitchell

In this interview, recorded at the Agile 2009 Conference, Cyndi Mitchell, Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Studios, discusses the company's new Adaptive ALM...

0 replies - 3232 views - 09/10/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

"Stop Starting and Start Finishing" - A successful Lean philosophy

One of the killers on software development projects is Work-In-Progress. We have learned from the Lean experts, and from the teachings on the Toyota Production...

0 replies - 1084 views - 09/08/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Conclusion of Programming with the Stars at Agile 2009

The conclusion of Programming with the Stars at Agile 2009 was an awesome event. A huge thank you to Jeff Nielsen and Joshua Kerievsky for coordinating the...

0 replies - 374 views - 09/07/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

What makes a good user story

Leading on from last week where I described that there are two main parts to user stories, the user (or persona or role) and the story (a short description of...

0 replies - 423 views - 09/01/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Clarity of code is clarity of thought

I remember at my first job when we introduced the concept of code reviews. I don't think anybody really looked at anybody else's code before pressing the...

7 replies - 4268 views - 08/30/09 by Torbjörn Gannholm in News

Rally Software Debuts ALM Data Warehouse in the Cloud

Rally Software Development Corp unveiled an ALM data warehouse in the cloud and the third generation of its award-winning Agile ALM solution.  Rally's new...

0 replies - 427 views - 08/28/09 by CodeJustin in News

Becoming Agile... in an imperfect world

I read this book because I run a one man consultancy, where agility is a job requirement not an option.  However, in the next 6-12 months I plan on hiring two additional staff members,...

0 replies - 1726 views - 08/27/09 by srpsco in Book Reviews

Agile 2009: Day Three

After a great first day, day three at Agile 2009 is a wrap. I have some general observations about the conference, but I’ll save those until next week to...

0 replies - 1479 views - 08/27/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles