Agile

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...

0 replies - 2525 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Top ALM Tools and Solutions Providers

A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM...

3 replies - 2464 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Danube's Michael James on Scrum Adoption

Scrum is beginning to emerge as an increasingly popular choice for organizations seeking to improve software quality, decrease time-to-market, and stay...

0 replies - 4551 views - 10/08/09 by lyndsey in Videos

Lean and Kanban Collection

For those of you interested in Lean and Kanban, but not much knowledge yet, it can be tough filter the noise and find information explaining what they are and...

0 replies - 1858 views - 10/05/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Pair Programming - Dispelling the Conspiracy

Richard Stobart has written an excellent article over at ITWales.com that provides some very interesting perspectives on the practice of pair programming. ...

2 replies - 2969 views - 09/30/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Exclusive Interview: VP Sue McKinney on IBM's Agile Transformation

If there were ever any doubts about agile's ability to scale within large organizations, Sue McKinney might have some encouraging words of advice. The VP of...

0 replies - 4986 views - 09/24/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

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 - 2144 views - 09/24/09 by Matt Raible in Articles

Agile Architecture, Lean Principles

Most of my discussions surrounding agile architecture have been focused on exploring how modularity helps increase architectural agility. I claim that...

1 replies - 2791 views - 09/23/09 by Kirk Knoernschild 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 - 7317 views - 09/18/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

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 - 4127 views - 08/30/09 by Torbjörn Gannholm in News

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 - 1427 views - 08/27/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

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 - 3047 views - 07/22/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Borland Introduces Silk 2009

Borland today unveiled Silk 2009, a comprehensive software test suite designed to support the testing needs of both Agile and traditional development teams by...

0 replies - 1514 views - 07/20/09 by CodeJustin in Announcements

What Pair-Programing is Not

People often ask how can I justify two people when one will do. Will this not, just double my cost? To answer this question I think it is important to discuss...

9 replies - 2921 views - 06/15/09 by mhevery in Articles

Case study: CI, Branching and Release Strategy For a Medium-Size Project

Someone recently asked me about how I organised releases in our Subversion repository. So I decided to write up the response as a blog entry. This article...

0 replies - 3053 views - 05/22/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles