Agile

An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development...

2 replies - 924 views - 11/20/09 by stephenrpalmer in Articles

The Benefits of Testable Code

One of the most beneficial approaches that you can take in software development is to follow a test driven development approach. While we all understand why...

1 replies - 3136 views - 11/17/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

An Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.  It is based on an estimation technique known as Wideband...

0 replies - 3437 views - 11/11/09 by AgileForAll in Articles

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 - 3503 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 - 2838 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 - 5462 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 - 1960 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 - 3091 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 - 5721 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 - 2245 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 - 2914 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 - 8242 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 - 4240 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 - 1465 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 - 3100 views - 07/22/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles