Agile Zone | Software Methodologies for Development Managers

Jim Bird04/29/13
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Code Ownership – Who Should Own the Code?

A key decision in building and managing any development team is agreeing on how ownership of the code will be divided up: who is going to work on what code; how much work can be, and should be, shared across the team; and who will be responsible for code quality.

Zac Gery04/29/13
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Multitasking is Bad?!?

Denouncing multitasking might sound crazy, but let's put some context around the statement. Multitasking made the modern computer a viable solution. The desire for people to multitask in business is a natural progression.

Kane Mar04/29/13
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A Collection of Funny Scrum Videos

Richard Hundhausen has put together a great list of funny Scrum/Agile related videos. Some of these are classics such as High Moon Studios: Portrait of Scrum and Adam Weisbart’s Shit Bad Scrum Masters say.

Giorgio Sironi04/28/13
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How to stub SOAP in PHP

How wonderful is the world of REST (or maybe ROT) web services... But many legacy and enterprise systems that we need to integrate are only accessible via SOAP. With a bit of experience and the right testing support, SOAP web services are not technologically difficult to call from PHP code.

Oscar Berg04/28/13
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Is the Office Really the Best Place to Get Work Done?

Yahoo’s decision to ban working from home can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. Whatever the reasons might be, to me their decision sends out a signal of desperation and reveals that Yahoo's management is incapable of dealing with flexible working.

Martin Fowler04/28/13
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Business Facing Test

A business-facing test is a test that's intended to be used as an aid to communicating with the non-programming members of a development team such as customers, users, business analysts and the like.

Rob Allen04/27/13
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Adding Diff Syntax Highlighting to Sublime Text

My chosen color scheme for Sublime Text doesn't include support for diff/patch files, so I added my own.

Esther Derby 04/26/13
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Are Part-Time Workers Part of the Team?

“Part-timers just don’t seem to fit in with the team,” a manager complained recently. “I do everything I can to impress on them the importance of teamwork and team spirit, but they just don’t gel with the team. What can I do to motivate these people to fit in?”

Mitch Pronschinske04/26/13
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Lean from the Trenches - Managing Large-Scale Projects with Kanban

Find out how the Swedish police combined Kanban, Scrum, and XP in a 60-person project. Ward Cunningham called this talk, "Awesome." Now you know it's legit.

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/13
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Future of Testing and Quality

This session will look at the added complexity of Cloud, Open Source and Software Complexity on testing professionals through the lens of 2 years worth of research.

Venkatesh Kris...04/25/13
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The Helpful Daily Standup Guide

Daily standup meetings are not only about sharing yesterday’s work, but they are designed to help team members plan for the day and look to the future. If you’re working in a distributed environment there are plenty of guidelines as well.

Ian Mitchell04/25/13
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Scrum Master: Servant Leadership in Practice

There seems to be one particular role that is common to most agile teams - the Scrum Master. Why do XP and Lean Kanban teams often claim to have them...not just Scrum? Are these Scrum Masters for real?

Martin Fowler04/25/13
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Broad-Stack Tests

A broad-stack test is a test that exercises most of the parts of a large application. It's often referred to as an end-to-end test or full-stack test. It lies in contrast to a ComponentTest, which only exercises a well-defined part of a system.

Johannes Brodwall04/25/13
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Scrum as an Impediment to Agility

As I’m working with smaller and more agile projects, I’m increasingly seeing the classic way that Scrum is executed as more of an impediment to agility than a helper.

Mike Cottmeyer04/24/13
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A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development

Some of you probably already get this… some of you might even disagree… but unless you are building software as a hobby… chances are, you building software for money. In other words, someone is paying you to write software for them.