Introducing Infinispan: Part I

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

Getting Started with GlassFish v3

This DZone Refcard is the go to resource for anyone new to GlassFish Application Server.

User Stories - Tell it like it is

At every training session I do on Agile and Scrum, there two questions that are guaranteed to be asked without fail. What are user stories? and Why are they...

0 replies - 393 views - 08/26/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

ThoughtWorks and Tasktop join to integrate with Eclipse

ThoughtWorks Studios and Tasktop Technologies announced the ThoughtWorks Adaptive ALM Connector. Set for release with Tasktop Pro in October, the connector...

0 replies - 1066 views - 08/26/09 by CodeJustin in News

Rally Releases New Agile ALM System

Rally Software, a producer of agile application lifecycle management software, will announce the third generation of its Agile ALM system, Rally Release...

0 replies - 417 views - 08/25/09 by CodeJustin in News

Stars & Craftsmanship

The first day of Agile 2009 is in the books. While it’s great that the conference is packed with amazing sessions, it also means that it’s not possible to...

0 replies - 1469 views - 08/25/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

OpenMake Software and Creoss Partner to Improve Agile Methods

OpenMake Software announced today a technology partnership with Creoss( the creators of the Agile Framework Paceline).

0 replies - 355 views - 08/24/09 by CodeJustin in News

Planning Poker - The Real Epiphany

Last week I established three good reasons to go with Story Points and why they're so popular. This week I want to talk about one more important aspect of...

0 replies - 652 views - 08/19/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Agile Adoption and Scaling Patterns

Over the past few months of writing Leading Agile... doing the Cutter Paper... and now preparing to write this book... we've talked a lot about different agile...

1 replies - 379 views - 08/19/09 by mcottmeyer in News

ThoughtWorks Studios Announces Adaptive ALM

ThoughtWorks Studios today announced Adaptive ALM, a new solution to help organizations streamline and automate the Agile software development lifecycle. Using...

0 replies - 898 views - 08/17/09 by CodeJustin in News

Using Prototypes to Improve UI Design

When we design an application for desktop, Web, or mobile, an important consideration to make is the user experience (UX). To achieve better UX, we need to...

0 replies - 1642 views - 08/14/09 by henrymark in Articles

The Significance of Story points

Expecting your teams to estimate in Story Points can be quite a leap of faith. When I first introduced the concept of Story Points at my previous company,...

0 replies - 520 views - 08/10/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Scaling Agile with Danube ScrumWorks 4

As the agile tools market continues to mature, more organizations are beginning to scale their development processes in ways that were previously not...

0 replies - 822 views - 08/04/09 by Nitin Bharti in News

VersionOne Goes Lean with new Storyboard, Kanban support

VersionOne announced today their Summer '09 release introducing a new Storyboard, support for Lean / Kanban and significant performance improvements throughout...

0 replies - 670 views - 08/04/09 by CodeJustin in News

Book Review - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

This book is split into three parts. The first describes the principles, patterns, and practices of writing clean code. The second part consists of several case studies of increasing complexity. Each...

3 replies - 1036 views - 08/03/09 by Jonathan Giles in Book Reviews

Coverity goes to School with Static Analysis Product

Coverity, provider of static source code analysis software, today announced an expansion of its academic research program. The Coverity Software Integrity...

0 replies - 611 views - 07/30/09 by CodeJustin in News

The Project Date - Kill It!

Tom DeMarco recently published an article in IEEE Software suggesting he may have been wrong in stating that metrics are a requirement for successful software...

3 replies - 3111 views - 07/22/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles