Getting Started with GlassFish v3

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Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

Software Testing Categorization

You hear people talking about small/medium/large/unit/integration/functional/scenario tests but do most of us really know what is meant by that? Here is how I...

0 replies - 2295 views - 07/18/09 by mhevery in News

Accounting for Bugs in an Agile World - How we do it

Today I'd like to share with you a really important aspect of Agile software development - how to account for bugs in your daily plans. I am frequently asked...

0 replies - 659 views - 07/05/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Agile Architecture Requires Modularity

A few weeks ago, I presented my view of agile architecture, and followed that up with a post on DZone that presented two aspects of agile architecture. A...

1 replies - 1567 views - 06/24/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life

PrefaceThe preface begins by introducing the purpose and intended audience of the book, much of which has already been highlighted in this review. It closes with a roadmap of what's to come and a...

0 replies - 2063 views - 06/17/09 by Matt Stine in Book Reviews

Test Infecting Your Team

Recently, a simple question was posed to the Yahoo Test Driven Development (TDD) group. I've seen situations where the person on a team you would single out to...

7 replies - 4146 views - 06/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

The Scrum of Scrums

It is sometimes said that agile software development methods, such as Scrum, are ideal for small projects being delivered by small teams.Personally I would...

0 replies - 726 views - 06/11/09 by Kelly Waters in News

Tough times out there - Scrum can show you the way out!

"In these tough economic times" I've heard this so many times it's starting to annoy me. Yet, this little proverb is sublimely relevant; it taps into...

0 replies - 783 views - 06/10/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

Defining Kanban

There has been a long thread in the kanbandev group at Yahoo about how to define what a kanban system is, and is not. Defining kanban is important because...

5 replies - 3858 views - 06/09/09 by Henrik.Martensson in News

Three Levels of Control (Example)

In my last post I told you about the three levels of control for managers. I didn't have much time to go into details then, and it was no surprise to see...

0 replies - 487 views - 06/08/09 by jurgenappelo in News

The Product Owner - Top 10 Responsibilities

Over the course of the past 5 years, I have often been asked about the role the Product Owner plays in an Agile company. More recently in a rather...

0 replies - 1692 views - 06/05/09 by Agilebuddy in Articles

To Estimate or Not - That Is the Question

Lean software development shares many of the key principles of agile software development.Although one of the key aspects of lean development is all about...

0 replies - 740 views - 06/03/09 by Kelly Waters in News

Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise (3): Responsibility-Owning the Vision

Note: this is the third in a series of posts on the changing role of product management as the enterprise transitions to agile development methods. This series...

0 replies - 657 views - 06/01/09 by deanleffingwell... in News

Recommended Books on Agile

Quite frequently I am out talking to traditional project managers or new agile teams that want to learn a little bit more about all this agile stuff....

2 replies - 940 views - 05/29/09 by mcottmeyer in News

Self-Organization (Part 3)

In part 1 and part 2 of this multi-post article I told you that self-organization does not distinguish between valuable and harmful results. This distinction...

1 replies - 1160 views - 05/27/09 by jurgenappelo in News

Introducing Kanban, Flow, and Cadence

There has been some noticeable increase in interest in Kanban recently, with a number of people asking for more basic info, and more people writing new blogs...

2 replies - 6224 views - 05/26/09 by kjscotland in News